State size comparison

compared to

California is about 3.9 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making California 294% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (29.3 million more people live in California).

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