Country size comparison

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New York is about 7 times bigger than Kuwait.

Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 586% larger than Kuwait. Meanwhile, the population of Kuwait is ~3.1 million people (16.3 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kuwait vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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