Country size comparison

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China is about 19 times bigger than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 1,799% larger than Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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