State size comparison
compared to
California is about 2,282 times bigger than District of Columbia.
District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 228,082% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (36.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
District of Columbia
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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