Country size comparison
compared to
Belgium is about 1.4 times smaller than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 73.49% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (5.6 million fewer people live in Belgium).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Belgium
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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