Country size comparison

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Democratic Republic of the Congo is about 9 times bigger than New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Democratic Republic of the Congo is approximately 2,344,858 sq km, making Democratic Republic of the Congo 772% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (103.4 million more people live in Democratic Republic of the Congo).
This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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