Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 11,031 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.01% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.5 billion people (1.5 billion fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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