Country size comparison

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Latvia is about 6 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 15.99% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (35.4 million fewer people live in Latvia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Latvia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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