Country size comparison

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Norway is about 2.6 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Norway is approximately 323,802 sq km, making Norway 165% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~20.0 million people (14.4 million fewer people live in Norway).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Norway uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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