Country size comparison
compared to
China is around the same size as United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, making China 97.59% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (1.1 billion more people live in China).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
China
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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