Country size comparison

compared to

Malta is about 54,108 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Malta is approximately 316 sq km, making Malta 0.0% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (141.6 million fewer people live in Malta).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Malta uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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