Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.1 times smaller than Mali.
Mali is approximately 1,240,192 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 32.57% the size of Mali. Meanwhile, the population of Mali is ~20.7 million people (16.5 million more people live in California).
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