Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 217 times smaller than Latvia.
Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.46% the size of Latvia. Meanwhile, the population of Latvia is ~1.8 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Latvia
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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