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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Belgium uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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