Country size comparison

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Zimbabwe is about 1.5 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Zimbabwe is approximately 390,757 sq km, making Zimbabwe 67.17% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.6 million people (14.4 million more people live in Zimbabwe).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Zimbabwe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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