Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 21 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 4.87% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (9.6 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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