Country size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 29 times smaller than Botswana.
Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 3.49% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (4.2 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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