Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 79 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 1.26% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Netherlands).
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