State size comparison

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California is about 1.4 times bigger than Arizona.

Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 37% larger than Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (30.9 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arizona vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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