Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 4.9 times smaller than Mexico.
Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 20.56% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (91.9 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Mexico
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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