State size comparison
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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).
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