Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.5 times smaller than Ukraine.
Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 66.92% the size of Ukraine. Meanwhile, the population of Ukraine is ~43.5 million people (6.3 million fewer people live in California).
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