State size comparison
compared to
Colorado is about 1.5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making
Colorado 66.51% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(32.2 million fewer people live in Colorado).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Colorado
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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