Country size comparison
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Belgium is about 13 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, making Belgium 7.56% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (25.4 million fewer people live in Belgium).
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