Country size comparison

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China is about 32,205 times bigger than Maldives.

Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 3,220,356% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maldives vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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