Land area comparison · 2023 data
Russia vs USA.
Russia is the clear larger country, but polar map distortion can exaggerate the difference.
Russia16,376,870 km²
United States9,147,420 km²
Russia has about 1.79 times the land area of the United States.
7,229,450 km²difference
Russia is 179% of USArelative size
2023World Bank data
What the numbers say
Large, without the map effect.
Russia has 16,376,870 km² of land area; the United States has 9,147,420 km². Russia is therefore about 1.79 times larger.
On a Mercator projection, Russia’s northern latitude stretches its apparent footprint. The real area gap remains enormous—about 7.23 million km²—but smaller than the map silhouette suggests.
The calculation compares land only and does not include inland water.
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