Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 3 times smaller than Taiwan.

Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 33.88% the size of Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.6 million people (23.3 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Taiwan vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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