Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 25 times smaller than Canada.
Canada is approximately 9,984,670 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 4.05% the size of Canada. Meanwhile, the population of Canada is ~41.7 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in California).
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