Country size comparison

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Netherlands is about 8 times smaller than Republic of the Congo.

Republic of the Congo is approximately 342,000 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 12.15% the size of Republic of the Congo. Meanwhile, the population of Republic of the Congo is ~5.5 million people (11.9 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of Republic of the Congo vs. Netherlands uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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