Country size comparison

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New Zealand is about 4.2 times bigger than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 316% larger than Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (3.2 million more people live in New Zealand).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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