Country size comparison

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Russia is about 140 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 13,883% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (122.6 million more people live in Russia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Russia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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