Country size comparison

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New York is about 1.8 times smaller than Guyana.

Guyana is approximately 214,969 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 56.88% the size of Guyana. Meanwhile, the population of Guyana is ~789,683 people (18.6 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Guyana vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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