Country size comparison

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Russia is about 595 times bigger than Albania.

Albania is approximately 28,748 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 59,376% larger than Albania. Meanwhile, the population of Albania is ~2.3 million people (141.2 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Albania vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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