State size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.3 times bigger than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 126% larger than Missouri.
Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people
(31.3 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Missouri
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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