Country size comparison
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Netherlands is about 231 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 0.43% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Netherlands).
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