Country size comparison
compared to
United States is around the same size as China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, making United States 2% larger than China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.1 billion fewer people live in United States).
This to-scale comparison of
China
vs.
United States
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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