Country size comparison

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Russia is about 5 times bigger than India.

India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 420% larger than India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.2 billion fewer people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of India vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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