Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 7 times smaller than Argentina.
Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 14.53% the size of Argentina. Meanwhile, the population of Argentina is ~45.9 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in California).
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