Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 7 times smaller than Philippines.

Philippines is approximately 300,000 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 13.85% the size of Philippines. Meanwhile, the population of Philippines is ~114.6 million people (97.2 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Philippines vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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