Country size comparison
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Gibraltar is about 62,136 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Gibraltar is approximately 7 sq km, making Gibraltar 0.0% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (37.2 million fewer people live in Gibraltar).
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