Country size comparison

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New Zealand is about 902 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 90,114% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (4.7 million more people live in New Zealand).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. New Zealand uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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