Canada vs China: which is bigger?

Canada is bigger: 9,984,670 km² against 9,596,961 km², about 1.04 times the size of China.

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Side by side at true size

Both drawn at the same scale on an equal-area projection.

And on the usual world map

On the usual world map Canada looks 3.4 times bigger, not 1.04: the map inflates Canada about 5.1 times and China 1.59 times.

In numbers

Canada: 9,984,670 km² (3,860,000 sq mi), 2nd largest, around 59°N
China: 9,596,961 km² (3,710,000 sq mi), 4th largest, around 37°N
China would fit into Canada about 1.04 times.

Areas: official totals including inland water (UN Statistics Division via Wikidata). Outlines: Natural Earth. How Globegami works