Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 33 times bigger than Vanuatu.
Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 3,213% larger than Vanuatu. Meanwhile, the population of Vanuatu is ~308,043 people (36.9 million more people live in California).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
Vanuatu
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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