Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 24 times bigger than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making
China 2,276% larger than California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(1.4 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
China
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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