Country size comparison

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China is about 267 times bigger than Taiwan.

Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 26,573% larger than Taiwan. Meanwhile, the population of Taiwan is ~23.4 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Taiwan vs. China uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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