Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 8 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 655% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (205.7 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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