Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 1.4 times smaller than Chad.

Chad is approximately 1,284,000 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 71.94% the size of Chad. Meanwhile, the population of Chad is ~21.0 million people (216.5 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chad vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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