State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.5 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 248% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (24.6 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Pennsylvania
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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