Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 8 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 11.85% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (4.0 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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