State size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 20 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making
Massachusetts 5.03% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(30.7 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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