Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.2 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 79.92% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~49.4 million people (10.0 million fewer people live in California).
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