Country size comparison
compared to
North Dakota is about 54 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while North Dakota is approximately 178,647 sq km, making North Dakota 1.86% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in North Dakota).
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