Country size comparison

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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 ~46.2 million people (9.0 million fewer people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Argentina vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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