[florieger]

How is Mongolia larger than Russia?

According to Wikipedia: Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 993% larger than Mongolia.

[jylam]

This has nothing to do with real borders, but with the distance to the nearest capital (that's how Voronoi diagrams work)

For instance, that shows that more than half of Russia territory is closest to the capital of Mongolia (which is Ulaanbaatar) than to Moscow, that's the point.

[florieger]

Thanks for clarification.

[zamadatix]

This map doesn't preserve area, it only says which capital is closest by distance.