Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 9,955 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.01% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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