Country size comparison
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Northern Mariana Islands is about 20,683 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Northern Mariana Islands is approximately 464 sq km, making Northern Mariana Islands 0.0% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Northern Mariana Islands).
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