Country size comparison

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New York is about 78 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 1.27% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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