Country size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 500 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 0.2% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in New Jersey).
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