Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 8 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 11.9% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.7 million more people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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