Country size comparison

compared to

Alabama is about 73 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 1.37% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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