Country size comparison

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Uruguay is about 97 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 1.03% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (138.6 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Uruguay uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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