Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.7 times bigger than Nepal.
Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 174% larger than Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (6.6 million more people live in California).
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