Country size comparison

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Qatar is about 9 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Qatar is approximately 11,586 sq km, making Qatar 11.3% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (5.5 million fewer people live in Qatar).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Qatar uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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