State size comparison

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California is about 2,282 times bigger than District of Columbia.

District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 228,082% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (36.7 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of District of Columbia vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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