Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 14 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 7.14% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (15.0 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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