State size comparison
compared to
New York is about 3.3 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making
New York 30.28% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(17.9 million fewer people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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