Country size comparison
compared to
United States is about 3 times bigger than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 199% larger than India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.1 billion fewer people live in United States).
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