Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.3 times bigger than Uruguay.
Uruguay is approximately 176,215 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 129% larger than Uruguay.
Meanwhile, the population of Uruguay is ~3.4 million people
(33.8 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Uruguay
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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