Country size comparison

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China is about 137 times bigger than Ireland.

Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 13,557% larger than Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.5 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ireland vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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