State size comparison

 Maryland, USA
compared to
 California, USA

Maryland is about 16 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 6.27% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (31.5 million fewer people live in Maryland). We have positioned the outline of California near the middle of Maryland.
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This to-scale comparison of California vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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