Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.7 times smaller than Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 36.57% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (76.4 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Ethiopia
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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