Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 4.3 times smaller than North Dakota.

North Dakota is approximately 178,647 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 23.25% the size of North Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of North Dakota is ~672,591 people (16.7 million more people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of North Dakota vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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