Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 4.3 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 332% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (11.6 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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