Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 1,696 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.06% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (46.8 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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Moving from Maldives to Spain · OECD 2019
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