Russia is about 31 times bigger than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 3,000% larger than France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (73.7 million more people live in Russia).

This to-scale map shows a size comparison of France compared to Russia. For more details, see an in-depth quality of life comparison of Russia vs. France using our country comparison tool.


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