Country size comparison

compared to

New York is about 140 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 0.72% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (122.6 million fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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