Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 1.6 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 56% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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