State size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is about 2 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making
Minnesota 51.05% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(32.0 million fewer people live in Minnesota).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Minnesota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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