Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 591 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.17% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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