Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 4.2 times bigger than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 324% larger than Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (14.0 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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