Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 5 times bigger than Serbia.
Serbia is approximately 77,474 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 421% larger than Serbia. Meanwhile, the population of Serbia is ~6.7 million people (30.5 million more people live in California).
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