Country size comparison

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New York is about 1.4 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 69.39% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (16.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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