Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 16 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 6.18% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (21.2 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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