Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 24 times smaller than United States.
United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 4.11% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~337.3 million people (300.1 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
United States
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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