Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 52 times smaller than Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 1.93% the size of Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, the population of Saudi Arabia is ~35.4 million people (18.0 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
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