Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 345 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.29% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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