Country size comparison
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New Zealand is about 37 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 2.69% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~38.2 million people (33.2 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
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Moving from New Zealand to Canada · OECD 2023
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