Country size comparison

compared to

Tajikistan is about 2.8 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Tajikistan is approximately 144,100 sq km, making Tajikistan 35.68% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (28.1 million fewer people live in Tajikistan).

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