Country size comparison

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California is about 3.9 times bigger than Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 292% larger than Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (36.9 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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