Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 1.4 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 44% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.0 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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