Country size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Samoa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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