Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 4.6 times smaller than Sudan.
Sudan is approximately 1,861,484 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 21.7% the size of Sudan. Meanwhile, the population of Sudan is ~48.0 million people (10.7 million fewer people live in California).
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