Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 3.6 times smaller than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 28.1% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.2 billion fewer people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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