Country size comparison

compared to

Vietnam is about 1.2 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Vietnam is approximately 331,210 sq km, making Vietnam 82.01% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (66.6 million more people live in Vietnam).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Vietnam uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.