Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 1.4 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 36% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (5.6 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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