Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 3,706 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.03% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (134.9 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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