Country size comparison

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Mexico is about 9 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, making Mexico 11.49% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (11.6 million fewer people live in Mexico).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Mexico uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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