State size comparison
compared to
California is about 1.7 times smaller than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 59.57% the size of Texas.
Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people
(12.1 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Texas
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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