Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 5 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 415% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (23.0 million more people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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