Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 475 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 0.21% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (118.4 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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