Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1,355 times bigger than Maldives.
Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 135,431% larger than Maldives. Meanwhile, the population of Maldives is ~390,164 people (36.9 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Maldives
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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