Country size comparison

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New York is about 7 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 14.83% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (16.7 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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