State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.3 times bigger than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 230% larger than New York.
Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people
(17.9 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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