Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 102 times smaller than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.98% the size of Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (11.5 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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