Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 265 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 0.38% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (141.7 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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