Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 128 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 0.78% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (1.8 million more people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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