Country size comparison

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Sao Tome and Principe is about 43 times smaller than Netherlands.

Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 2.32% the size of Netherlands. Meanwhile, the population of Netherlands is ~17.4 million people (17.2 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
This to-scale comparison of Netherlands vs. Sao Tome and Principe uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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