State size comparison
compared to
Delaware is about 80 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 1.25% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.4 million fewer people live in Delaware).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Delaware
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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