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I am not sure if it's fair to say that China is small compared to the USA: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/china/united-states https://w

I am not sure if it's fair to say that China is small compared to the USA: https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/china/united-states https://www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/chin... Though that is using the Mercator projection, you can at least tell that the contiguous USA is damn similar to China in scale. Perhaps China is even more biased towards the one coastline, with sparse settlements to the West, but the USA essentially has a massive deserve/mountain range in the middle, too.

legerdemain 5y ago
China's area is about 92,000 square miles less than the area of the US. The difference becomes more dramatic if you don't include Alaska.
- dont__panic 5y ago
  Of course. But if you compare contiguous US (where 99% of people live and where 99% of people drive) to mainland China, you get very similar numbers. We don't include Puerto Rico or Hawaii or US military bases abroad in that square mileage of generally drivable US for the same reason.