Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 279 times smaller than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.36% the size of New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (4.8 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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