Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 1.5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 66.56% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (32.2 million fewer people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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