Country size comparison
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Kuwait is about 23 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 4.41% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (34.2 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
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