Country size comparison

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Romania is about 72 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Romania is approximately 238,391 sq km, making Romania 1.39% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (123.5 million fewer people live in Romania).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Romania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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