Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 96 times bigger than South Korea.
South Korea is approximately 99,720 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 9,524% larger than South Korea. Meanwhile, the population of South Korea is ~51.8 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
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