Country size comparison
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Virgin Islands is about 211 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 0.47% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (37.1 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
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