Country size comparison

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Taiwan is about 4.8 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 20.88% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~8.0 million people (15.4 million more people live in Taiwan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Taiwan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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