Country size comparison
compared to
Ireland is about 2.5 times smaller than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, while Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, making Ireland 39.88% the size of Uruguay. Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people (1.9 million more people live in Ireland).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
Ireland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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