Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 20 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 5.1% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~27.9 million people (26.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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