Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 13 times smaller than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 7.53% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (50.9 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
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