Country size comparison

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Rwanda is about 15 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Rwanda is approximately 26,338 sq km, making Rwanda 6.52% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (24.1 million fewer people live in Rwanda).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Rwanda uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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