Country size comparison
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Taiwan is about 11 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Taiwan is approximately 35,980 sq km, making Taiwan 8.91% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (13.7 million fewer people live in Taiwan).
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