Country size comparison

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Malta is about 131 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.76% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.9 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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