Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 1.6 times smaller than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 64.32% the size of Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (16.2 million more people live in Netherlands).
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