Country size comparison
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California is about 3.9 times smaller than Mongolia.
Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 25.82% the size of Mongolia. Meanwhile, the population of Mongolia is ~3.2 million people (34.0 million more people live in California).
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