Country size comparison
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Mongolia is about 3.9 times bigger than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Mongolia is approximately 1,564,116 sq km, making Mongolia 287% larger than California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (34.0 million fewer people live in Mongolia).
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