Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 2.7 times smaller than Bulgaria.
Bulgaria is approximately 110,879 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 37.47% the size of Bulgaria. Meanwhile, the population of Bulgaria is ~6.9 million people (10.5 million more people live in Netherlands).
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Moving from Netherlands to Bulgaria · UN DESA 2020
1,772 people born in Netherlands live in Bulgaria.
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