Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.8 times smaller than Colombia.
Colombia is approximately 1,138,910 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 35.46% the size of Colombia. Meanwhile, the population of Colombia is ~49.1 million people (11.8 million fewer people live in California).
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