Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 205 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.49% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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