Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 43 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 2.32% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.2 million fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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