Country size comparison

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Spain is around the same size as France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, making Spain 91.64% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (21.1 million fewer people live in Spain).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. Spain uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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