Country size comparison

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Nigeria is about 10 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Nigeria is approximately 923,768 sq km, making Nigeria 9.63% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.2 billion fewer people live in Nigeria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Nigeria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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