Mali is 20,791 times larger than Santa Maria, California.
Area: 1,240,192 km2 World Factbook
Population: 16,455,903 (July 2014) World Factbook
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali is bordered by Algeria to the north, Niger to the east, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast to the south, Guinea to the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania to the west. Wikipedia
Area: 60 km2 calculated
Santa Maria is a city on the Central Coast, in Santa Barbara County. It is approximately 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The 2012 population was 101,459, putting it ahead of Santa Barbara for the first time and making it the most populous city in the county. Wikipedia