Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 48 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 2.1% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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