Country size comparison

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Peru is about 7 times bigger than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 620% larger than Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (26.3 million more people live in Peru).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Peru uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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