Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 635 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 0.16% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (25.8 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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