Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 10 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 9.97% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.1 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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