Country size comparison
compared to
Russia is about 1.8 times bigger than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km,
while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making
Russia 78% larger than China.
Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people
(1.3 billion fewer people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
Russia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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