North America dwarfs Venezuela: about 24,710,000 km² km² against 914,310 km² km². At true size North America is about 27× larger — the whole of Venezuela fits into North America roughly 27 times.
The old Mercator map treated both about equally (1× vs 1× inflation), so at least their relative sizes were preserved — even if both were drawn at the wrong absolute scale.
Venezuela fits 27× into North America.