State size comparison
compared to
Oklahoma is about 2.3 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Oklahoma is approximately 177,847 sq km, making Oklahoma 44.03% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (33.5 million fewer people live in Oklahoma).
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