Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 6 times smaller than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 15.46% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (12.4 million more people live in Netherlands).
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