Country size comparison
compared to
China is about 154 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 15,289% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (1.4 billion more people live in China).
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