Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 25,977 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.0% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (25.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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