Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.3 times smaller than Thailand.
Thailand is approximately 513,120 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 78.71% the size of Thailand. Meanwhile, the population of Thailand is ~69.6 million people (32.4 million fewer people live in California).
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