Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 494 times smaller than Nepal.

Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.2% the size of Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (30.3 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nepal vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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