State size comparison

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California is about 20 times bigger than Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 1,889% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (30.7 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of Massachusetts vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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