Country size comparison

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Minnesota is about 83 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 1.21% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (136.7 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Minnesota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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