Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 32 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 3.09% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~143.5 million people (101.7 million fewer people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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