Country size comparison

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Italy is around the same size as New Zealand.

New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, while Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, making Italy 12% larger than New Zealand. Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people (56.0 million more people live in Italy).
This to-scale comparison of New Zealand vs. Italy uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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