Country size comparison

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China is about 78 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 7,748% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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