Central African Rep. is 27,635 times larger than Paterson, New Jersey.
Area: 622,984 km2 World Factbook
Population: 5,277,959 (July 2014) World Factbook
The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo to the south and Cameroon to the west. Wikipedia
Area: 23 km2 calculated
Paterson is a city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States, in the New York City Metropolitan Area. Wikipedia