Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 29 times smaller than Zambia.

Zambia is approximately 752,618 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 3.5% the size of Zambia. Meanwhile, the population of Zambia is ~21.9 million people (7.3 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Zambia vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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