Country size comparison

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New York is about 19 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 5.13% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (24.8 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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