Country size comparison

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Yemen is around the same size as Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 90.76% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (39.2 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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