State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 21 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 4.76% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (28.5 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
New Jersey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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