Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 4.7 times smaller than Indonesia.
Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 21.21% the size of Indonesia. Meanwhile, the population of Indonesia is ~277.3 million people (240.1 million fewer people live in California).
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