Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 2 times smaller than France.
France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 48.75% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (63.3 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
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Moving from New Zealand to France · OECD 2023
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