Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 123 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 12,206% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
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