Country size comparison

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California is about 3.1 times bigger than Greece.

Greece is approximately 131,957 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 206% larger than Greece. Meanwhile, the population of Greece is ~10.5 million people (26.7 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Greece vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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