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type 076 may be even larger than the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier.
Yes - Type 003 has exceeded the size of most of US midsize carriers (Midway, Coral Sea etc. and today's Gerald R. Ford class) which were roughly 300 meters in length and ~45,000 tons displacement. Type 076 is about the size (~260 meters) of the smaller US Essex class carriers listed below (which were succeeded by Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Enterprise classes - Enterprise being the first class with Nuclear propulsion and it and anything bigger are called super carrier).
USS Yorktown (CV-10)
USS Intrepid (CV-11)
USS Hornet (CV-12)
USS Lexington (CV-16)
Of course Nuclear powered carriers like the Nimitz class are quite a bit larger.
Chinese aircraft carriers (esp. Type 003) are comparable to midsize US carriers, Indian carriers are much smaller. Matrix below is a bit old though.
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