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Michigan is the size of the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg combined.

It's an interesting tidbit, and a storage company is seizing on it in a fun advertising campaign that points out many more countries around the world that could fit snuggly inside the Great Lakes state.

The images are courtesy of SelfStorage.com, which used TheTrueSize.com to compensate for any projection distortions to accurately show which countries could fit inside the Mitten, and how.

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Guinea

Guinea is located in west Africa, and is the country formerly known as French Guinea. It has a population of around 11.5 million.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and its 64-plus million people could all fit inside the Great Lakes State.

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Ghana

This West African nation and its population of 25.9 million people could fit inside Michigan with a decent amount of room to spare.

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Romania

Romania and Transylvania would fit into Michigan with a glove.

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-,

This southeast Asia country located north of Thailand and Vietnam would fit inside Michigan with more than 5,313-square-miles to spare.

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Guyana

Located between Venezuela and Suriname on South America's North Atlantic Ocean Coast, this country with a population of less than 1,000,000 would easily squeeze into a Michigan-sized storage unit.

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Uganda

Uganda be kidding me. These 37.58 million people could fit inside Michigan?

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Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg all at once

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Syria

Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon, Syria would fit inside Michigan with about enough room remaining to squeeze West Virginia in there.

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Uruguay

This South American country would leave nearly 30,000-square-miles of storage area.

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Bangladesh

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Greece

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North and South Korea

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Portugal

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Ireland

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Iceland