Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.4 times smaller than Madagascar.
Madagascar is approximately 587,041 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 68.8% the size of Madagascar. Meanwhile, the population of Madagascar is ~28.2 million people (9.1 million more people live in California).
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