Country size comparison
compared to
Saudi Arabia is about 4.5 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 22.4% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Saudi Arabia).
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