2006-11-13 01:07:21 · 20 answers · asked by ILOVETENNIS 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ China
By landmass, USA is biggest...
9,629,091 sq.km vs 9,596,960 sq.km
By population, it's China...
1,284,303,705 vs 280,562,489 (2002 pop. estimate)
2006-11-13 01:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by mookvey 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The USA are slightly larger than China but if you include Taiwan, which under international law is still a province of the PRC, China is larger. The USA are about half the size of Russia and still smaller than Canada.
2006-11-13 20:39:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Phil 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By population, China is bigger, with 1.3 billion people. The US has just over 300 million.
By area, they're are about the same, with the US slightly larger. The US contains 9.63 million square kilometers, while China has 9.59 million square kilometers. However, the Chinese figure is disputed, since some of their boundaries are less clear, and the official Chinese government figure for the size of their country would make China larger than the US.
2006-11-13 09:12:29 · answer #3 · answered by gerlach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USA is larger than China
2006-11-13 17:08:16 · answer #4 · answered by gingben 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
China is larger in population 1.3 billion; US 300 million. USA is slightly larger than China in land mass by 100,000 Sq KM
2006-11-13 09:34:15 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are speaking in terms of population then China is bigger. China has a population of around 1 billion while the US population is around 300 million.
If you are speaking in terms of area, then they are both around the same size. It depends what area figures you use. The area of China without disputed territories is 9,598,0861 km². Included disputed territories its area is 9,640,8212 km². The area of the United States is 9,629,091 km² counting only the 50 states and District of Columbia. If you included our overseas possessions such as Puerto Rico and Guam then we would have a larger area.
To summarize, it really just depends on what figures you use. You might as well consider them comparable in size because they are very close.
2006-11-13 09:17:27 · answer #6 · answered by arbolito 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Russia is the largest, Canada is the second, China is the third, US is the fourth. That's counting Taiwan as a part China. Maybe that's where Chinese and American statistics are different.
2006-11-13 14:09:02 · answer #7 · answered by Chuck Schwarzenegger 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
China. It's the largest in the world.
2006-11-14 10:30:56 · answer #8 · answered by eedee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
land: pretty similar except large parts of china are uninhabital
population: china is way bigger...largest in the world.
2006-11-13 15:54:17 · answer #9 · answered by ME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it is China. USA is big as well. Russia is the largest.
2006-11-13 09:10:37 · answer #10 · answered by May Lee 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋