Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 127 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.79% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.2 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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