Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 23 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 4.35% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (3.4 million more people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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