Lishi District is 4.5 times larger than Maldives.
Area: 298 km2 World Factbook
Population: 393,595 (July 2014) World Factbook
Maldives, officially the Republic of the Maldives and also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean–Arabian Sea area, consisting of a double chain of twenty-six atolls, oriented north-south, that lie between Minicoy Island and the Chagos Archipelago. Wikipedia
Area: 1,333 km2 calculated
Lishi District is a district of Lüliang, Shanxi, China. The district is a major hub for the coal industry in Lüliang as well as an administrative center for the prefecture. Wikipedia