Country size comparison

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Mauritius is about 20 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 4.91% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.1 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Mauritius uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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