State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 3.9 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 25.39% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (29.3 million fewer people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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