Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 117 times smaller than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.85% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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