State size comparison

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California is about 15,127 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney is approximately 27 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 1,512,567% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. California uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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