Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 3.2 times smaller than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 31.61% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (12.6 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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