Country size comparison

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Russia is about 166 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 16,500% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~392,404 people (143.1 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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