Country size comparison

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New York is about 1.7 times smaller than Belarus.

Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 58.9% the size of Belarus. Meanwhile, the population of Belarus is ~9.4 million people (10.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Belarus vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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