Country size comparison

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Russia is about 96,600 times bigger than District of Columbia.

District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 9,659,924% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (141.4 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of District of Columbia vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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