Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.7 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 36.57% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~135.5 million people (96.1 million fewer people live in California).
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