State size comparison

compared to

Alabama is about 3.1 times smaller than California.

California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 32.54% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (32.5 million fewer people live in Alabama).

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