Country size comparison
compared to
New York is about 2.2 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 45.49% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (14.3 million more people live in New York).
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