Country size comparison

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Vanuatu is about 14 times smaller than Uruguay.

Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 6.92% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (3.1 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Uruguay vs. Vanuatu uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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