Country size comparison

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Ukraine is about 28 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, making Ukraine 3.53% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (98.5 million fewer people live in Ukraine).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Ukraine uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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