State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.6 times bigger than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 258% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (32.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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