Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 11 times smaller than Alabama.

Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 8.82% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alabama vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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