Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 8 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 12.57% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (106.5 million fewer people live in Saudi Arabia).
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