Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 57,377 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.0% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (141.6 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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