State size comparison
compared to
Arkansas is about 3 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 33.39% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (34.3 million fewer people live in Arkansas).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Arkansas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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