Country size comparison

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New York is about 4.8 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 21.02% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (17.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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