Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 17,737 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.01% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (141.8 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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