Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 4.8 times bigger than Austria.
Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 382% larger than Austria. Meanwhile, the population of Austria is ~8.9 million people (28.3 million more people live in California).
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