Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 902 times smaller than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.11% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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