Country size comparison

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Norway is about 1.7 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 58.71% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (62.8 million fewer people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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