Country size comparison

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Sao Tome and Principe is about 32 times smaller than Belgium.

Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 3.16% the size of Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (11.6 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Belgium vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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