Country size comparison

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Sao Tome and Principe is about 179 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.56% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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