Country size comparison

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Niger is about 10 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 936% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (5.1 million more people live in Niger).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Niger uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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