Countries with a smaller population than California

California, state of the United States of America. California has a population of 39,368,078.

Europe

There are 47 countries in Europe with a population smaller than California.

# Country Capital City Population
1 Vatican Vatican City 921
2 Svalbard and Jan Mayen Longyearbyen 2,550
3 Aland Islands Mariehamn 26,711
4 Gibraltar Gibraltar 33,718
5 San Marino San Marino 33,785
6 Liechtenstein Vaduz 37,910
7 Monaco Monaco 38,682
8 Faroe Islands Torshavn 48,497
9 Guernsey St Peter Port 65,228
10 Andorra Andorra la Vella 77,006
11 Isle of Man Douglas 84,077
12 Jersey Saint Helier 90,812
13 Iceland Reykjavik 353,574
14 Malta Valletta 483,530
15 Luxembourg Luxembourg 607,728
16 Montenegro Podgorica 622,345
17 Cyprus Nicosia 1,189,265
18 Estonia Tallinn 1,320,884
19 Kosovo Pristina 1,845,300
20 Latvia Riga 1,926,542
21 Slovenia Ljubljana 2,067,372
22 North Macedonia Skopje 2,082,958
23 Lithuania Vilnius 2,789,533
24 Albania Tirana 2,866,376
25 Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarajevo 3,323,929
26 Moldova Chisinau 3,545,883
27 Croatia Zagreb 4,089,400
28 Ireland Dublin 4,853,506
29 Norway Oslo 5,314,336
30 Slovakia Bratislava 5,447,011
31 Finland Helsinki 5,518,050
32 Denmark Copenhagen 5,797,446
33 Serbia Belgrade 6,982,084
34 Bulgaria Sofia 7,000,039
35 Switzerland Bern 8,516,543
36 Austria Vienna 8,847,037
37 Belarus Minsk 9,485,386
38 Hungary Budapest 9,768,785
39 Sweden Stockholm 10,183,175
40 Portugal Lisbon 10,281,762
41 Czechia Prague 10,625,695
42 Greece Athens 10,727,668
43 Serbia and Montenegro Belgrade 10,829,175
44 Belgium Brussels 11,422,068
45 Netherlands Amsterdam 17,231,017
46 Romania Bucharest 19,473,936
47 Poland Warsaw 37,978,548

Asia

There are 38 countries in Asia with a population smaller than California.

# Country Capital City Population
1 Cocos Islands West Island 628
2 British Indian Ocean Territory Diego Garcia 4,000
3 Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 428,962
4 Maldives Male 515,696
5 Macao Macao 631,636
6 Bhutan Thimphu 754,394
7 Bahrain Manama 1,569,439
8 Qatar Doha 2,781,677
9 Armenia Yerevan 2,951,776
10 Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 3,170,208
11 Georgia Tbilisi 3,731,000
12 Kuwait Kuwait City 4,137,309
13 Palestinian Territory East Jerusalem 4,569,087
14 Oman Muscat 4,829,483
15 Singapore Singapore 5,638,676
16 Turkmenistan Ashgabat 5,850,908
17 Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 6,315,800
18 Lebanon Beirut 6,848,925
19 Laos Vientiane 7,061,507
20 Hong Kong Hong Kong 7,451,000
21 Israel Jerusalem 8,883,800
22 Tajikistan Dushanbe 9,100,837
23 United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 9,630,959
24 Azerbaijan Baku 9,942,334
25 Jordan Amman 9,956,011
26 Cambodia Phnom Penh 16,249,798
27 Syria Damascus 16,906,283
28 Kazakhstan Nur-Sultan 18,276,499
29 Sri Lanka Colombo 21,670,000
30 Taiwan Taipei 22,894,384
31 North Korea Pyongyang 25,549,819
32 Nepal Kathmandu 28,087,871
33 Yemen Sanaa 28,498,687
34 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 31,528,585
35 Uzbekistan Tashkent 32,955,400
36 Saudi Arabia Riyadh 33,699,947
37 Afghanistan Kabul 37,172,386
38 Iraq Baghdad 38,433,600

South America

There are 11 countries in South America with a population smaller than California.

# Country Capital City Population
1 Falkland Islands Stanley 2,638
2 French Guiana Cayenne 195,506
3 Suriname Paramaribo 575,991
4 Guyana Georgetown 779,004
5 Uruguay Montevideo 3,449,299
6 Paraguay Asuncion 6,956,071
7 Bolivia Sucre 11,353,142
8 Ecuador Quito 17,084,357
9 Chile Santiago 18,729,160
10 Venezuela Caracas 28,870,195
11 Peru Lima 31,989,256

Oceania

There are 28 countries in Ocenia with a population smaller than California.

# Country Capital City Population
1 Pitcairn Adamstown 46
2 United States Minor Outlying Islands 300
3 Tokelau 1,466
4 Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove 1,500
5 Norfolk Island Kingston 1,828
6 Niue Alofi 2,166
7 Tuvalu Funafuti 11,508
8 Nauru Yaren 12,704
9 Wallis and Futuna Mata Utu 16,025
10 Palau Melekeok 17,907
11 Cook Islands Avarua 21,388
12 American Samoa Pago Pago 55,465
13 Northern Mariana Islands Saipan 56,882
14 Marshall Islands Majuro 58,413
15 Tonga Nuku'alofa 103,197
16 Micronesia Palikir 112,640
17 Kiribati Tarawa 115,847
18 Guam Hagatna 165,768
19 Samoa Apia 196,130
20 French Polynesia Papeete 277,679
21 New Caledonia Noumea 284,060
22 Vanuatu Port Vila 292,680
23 Solomon Islands Honiara 652,858
24 Fiji Suva 883,483
25 Timor Leste Dili 1,267,972
26 New Zealand Wellington 4,885,500
27 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby 8,606,316
28 Australia Canberra 24,992,369