Country size comparison

compared to

Yemen is about 18 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 5.5% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Yemen).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of China vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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