Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 50 times smaller than Niger.

Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 2.0% the size of Niger. Meanwhile, the population of Niger is ~24.5 million people (18.7 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Niger vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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