California is about 2 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 49.0% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (34.5 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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