Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 8 times smaller than Yemen.

Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 12.23% the size of Yemen. Meanwhile, the population of Yemen is ~31.0 million people (29.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Yemen vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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