State size comparison
compared to
California is about 5 times bigger than South Carolina.
South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 418% larger than South Carolina. Meanwhile, the population of South Carolina is ~4.6 million people (32.6 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
South Carolina
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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