State size comparison

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Alaska is about 3.7 times bigger than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 267% larger than California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.5 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of California vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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