Country size comparison

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Liberia is around the same size as New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Liberia is approximately 111,369 sq km, making Liberia 91.07% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (14.0 million fewer people live in Liberia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Liberia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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