Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 5 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 413% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (26.6 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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