State size comparison
compared to
California is about 21 times bigger than New Jersey.
New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 2,002% larger than New Jersey. Meanwhile, the population of New Jersey is ~8.8 million people (28.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
New Jersey
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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