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Countries Larger Than Texas but With Fewer People

Name all the countries of the world that have a larger surface area than Texas but have a lower population.
Country population as of January 1, 2026. More data here.
Texas has an area of around 695,000 square km and a population of about 31.7 million
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km²
Country
Population
7.69 m
Australia
27.1 m
2.72 m
Kazakhstan
30.0 m
2.21 m
Denmark
6.1 m
1.76 m
Libya
7.5 m
1.56 m
Mongolia
3.5 m
1.28 m
Chad
21.3 m
1.27 m
Niger
28.4 m
km²
Country
Population
1.24 m
Mali
25.6 m
1.10 m
Bolivia
12.7 m
1.03 m
Mauritania
5.4 m
0.912 m
Venezuela
28.6 m
0.912 m
Namibia
3.1 m
0.756 m
Chile
19.9 m
0.752 m
Zambia
22.2 m
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24 Comments
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Level 61
Dec 19, 2024
Time way too much...
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Level ∞
Dec 19, 2024
Reduced to 3 minutes.
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Level 61
Dec 19, 2024
Reasonable👍
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Level 61
Dec 19, 2024
Smaller than Texas with more people?
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Level 81
Dec 20, 2024
Got curious, idk if it's already a quiz but list is Myanmar, Afghanistan, France, Ukraine, Kenya, Thailand, Spain, Yemen, Uzbekistan, Morocco, Iraq, Japan, Germany, Vietnam, Malaysia, Poland, Italy, Philippines, UK, Uganda, Ghana, Bangladesh, and South Korea.
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Level 63
Apr 1, 2025
Made it 😌🤠 but with two additions
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Level 79
Dec 19, 2024
1:52 used
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Level 70
Dec 20, 2024
Awesome quiz
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Level 73
Dec 26, 2024
Cool quiz. Can you do a Sakha Republic version? :)
+1
Level 69
Dec 26, 2024
Namibia area is 825km sq, not 912km sq
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Level 70
Dec 26, 2024
Great quiz idea!
+3
Level 56
Dec 26, 2024
no way chile is bigger than texas
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Level 50
Dec 26, 2024
This isn't Twitter, or TikTok, or Instagram, or whatever other random site. It's Jetpunk, so one is meant to do their own research before spouting random incorrect assertions.
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Level 45
Dec 26, 2024
they're just saying they can't believe it, why are you so heated?? it's really not that serious
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Level 37
Dec 27, 2024
you can't be sure today ;-)
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Level 64
Dec 26, 2024
Even though Texas plagiarized our flag, we're still bigger. Aguante Chile 🇨🇱
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Level 62
Dec 26, 2024
What about Papua New Guinea?
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Level 78
Dec 26, 2024
Smaller in area than Texas
+3
Level 88
Dec 26, 2024
Should Denmark be on here? Or a note that external territories are excluded? I think probably the former.
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Level 86
Jul 9, 2025
I was here to say the same.
+2
Level 67
May 7, 2025
I thought Venezuela had like 40 million people, similar to Colombia but I guess I was wrong. Still got all right with about 30 seconds left
+3
Level 73
Mar 16, 2026
Kazakhstan's population is wrong here
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Level 55
Mar 16, 2026
The source says it's 20,967,000, which means it should be 21.0 million.
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Level 18
Mar 16, 2026
Now do Alaska