Country size comparison

compared to

Iceland is about 3.9 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, making Iceland 25.5% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (36.9 million fewer people live in Iceland).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of California vs. Iceland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.