Country size comparison
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Samoa is about 143 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.7% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (37.0 million fewer people live in Samoa).
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