State size comparison
California, USA
compared to
Colorado, USA
California is about 1.5 times bigger than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 50% larger than Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (32.2 million more people live in California).
We have positioned the outline of Colorado near the middle of California.
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This to-scale comparison of
Colorado
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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