Country size comparison
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Vanuatu is about 33 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Vanuatu is approximately 12,189 sq km, making Vanuatu 3.02% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.9 million fewer people live in Vanuatu).
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