Country size comparison
compared to
Qatar is about 23 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 4.31% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Qatar).
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Moving from Qatar to New Zealand · OECD 2019
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