Kiribati is 8.3 times larger than Visalia, California.
Area: 811 km2 World Factbook
Population: 104,488 (July 2014) World Factbook
Kiribati, officially the Independent and Sovereign Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is just over 100,000 on 800 square kilometres. Wikipedia
Area: 98 km2 calculated
Visalia is a city situated in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California, approximately 230 miles southeast of San Francisco, 190 miles north of Los Angeles, and 36 miles west of Sequoia National Park. The population was 124,442 at the 2010 census. Wikipedia