Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 48 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 2.1% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (65.8 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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