Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 19 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 5.22% the size of Australia.
Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people
(11.1 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Australia
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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