State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.1 times bigger than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 207% larger than Alabama.
Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people
(32.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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