Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 236 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.42% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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