Country size comparison

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Namibia is about 7 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, making Namibia 574% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.7 million fewer people live in Namibia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Namibia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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