> China has less land area than the United States, which is a very large country...

_fq4v · on April 1, 2020

America is slightly bigger. According to Google, USA is 3.797 million sq miles, and and china is 3.705 million square miles.

throwaway0888 · on April 1, 2020

It's an old infamous error, where they measure water surface for the US but not China in order to appear higher in rankings.

China is larger though by all accounts.

_fq4v · on April 2, 2020

I mean, not by much though. They're about equivalent in size.