State size comparison

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California is about 5 times bigger than Maine.

Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 405% larger than Maine. Meanwhile, the population of Maine is ~1.3 million people (35.9 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maine vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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