Country size comparison

compared to

China is about 1.2 times bigger than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 24% larger than Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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