Country size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.2 times smaller than Spain.
Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 79.92% the size of Spain.
Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people
(9.9 million fewer people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Spain
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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