Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 9 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 798% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (220.7 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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