Country size comparison
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Mauritius is about 198 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Mauritius is approximately 2,040 sq km, making Mauritius 0.51% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (35.9 million fewer people live in Mauritius).
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