Country size comparison

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Timor-Leste is about 2.8 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Timor-Leste is approximately 14,874 sq km, making Timor-Leste 35.8% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (16.0 million fewer people live in Timor-Leste).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Timor-Leste uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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