Country size comparison

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India is about 2.9 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, making India 34.25% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (20.9 million fewer people live in India).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. India uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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