Country size comparison

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Indonesia is about 5 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Indonesia is approximately 1,904,569 sq km, making Indonesia 19.85% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.1 billion fewer people live in Indonesia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Indonesia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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