State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.9 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 293% larger than Kentucky.
Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people
(32.9 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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