State size comparison

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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 ~11.5 million people (25.7 million more people live in California).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ohio vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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