Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 240 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 0.42% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (20.8 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
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