Country size comparison

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Russia is about 166 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 16,517% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (137.7 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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