Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 12 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 8.22% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~49.4 million people (31.3 million fewer people live in Netherlands).
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