Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 50 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 1.99% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (123,936 more people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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