Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.5 times bigger than New Zealand.
New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 50% larger than New Zealand.
Meanwhile, the population of New Zealand is ~5.1 million people
(32.2 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
New Zealand
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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