Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 8 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 11.93% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (209.9 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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