Country size comparison

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Maryland is about 51 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 1.97% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~34.6 million people (28.3 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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