Country size comparison

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New York is about 410 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 40,935% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (19.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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