Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 19 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 5.4% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (94.0 million more people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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