Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 4,309 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.02% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~18.0 million people (17.6 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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