Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 8 times smaller than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 11.83% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (49,560 fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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