Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 1,011 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.1% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~61.1 million people (60.7 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Maldives to Italy · OECD 2023
2 people moved from Maldives to Italy.
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