State size comparison
compared to
California is about 3.8 times bigger than Ohio.
Ohio is approximately 106,056 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 281% larger than Ohio. Meanwhile, the population of Ohio is ~11.9 million people (27.5 million more people live in California).
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