State size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 16 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making
Maryland 6.27% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(31.5 million fewer people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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