Country size comparison

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Niger is about 14 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Niger is approximately 1,267,000 sq km, making Niger 7.41% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (117.5 million fewer people live in Niger).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. Niger uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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