Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 9 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 11.71% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (66.5 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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