Country size comparison

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China is about 26,709 times bigger than Detroit.

Detroit is approximately 359 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 2,670,842% larger than Detroit.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Detroit vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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