Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 17 times smaller than Minnesota.

Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 5.91% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Minnesota vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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