State size comparison
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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).
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