Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 1.8 times smaller than Latvia.

Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 55.71% the size of Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (21.6 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Latvia vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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