State size comparison

compared to

California is about 3.9 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 293% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (32.9 million more people live in California).

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