Country size comparison

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Russia is about 82 times bigger than Belarus.

Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 8,136% larger than Belarus. Meanwhile, the population of Belarus is ~9.4 million people (132.6 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Belarus vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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