Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 37 times smaller than Taiwan.
Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 2.68% the size of Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (23.4 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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