Country size comparison

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Moldova is about 505 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Moldova is approximately 33,851 sq km, making Moldova 0.2% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (138.7 million fewer people live in Moldova).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Moldova uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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