Country size comparison
compared to
Maldives is about 139 times smaller than Netherlands.
Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.72% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (17.0 million fewer people live in Maldives).
This to-scale comparison of
Netherlands
vs.
Maldives
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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