State size comparison

compared to

California is about 3.5 times bigger than Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 248% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (24.6 million more people live in California).

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