State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.7 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 27.26% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (36.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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