State size comparison
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Maine is about 5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, making Maine 19.79% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (35.9 million fewer people live in Maine).
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