Country size comparison

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Samoa is about 3,390 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Samoa is approximately 2,831 sq km, making Samoa 0.03% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Samoa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Samoa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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