Country size comparison
compared to
Uruguay is about 2.5 times bigger than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km, making Uruguay 151% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (1.9 million fewer people live in Uruguay).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Uruguay
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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