Country size comparison

compared to

Kuwait is about 539 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 0.19% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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