Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 4.6 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 21.54% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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