Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 8 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 719% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (220.5 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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