State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 5 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making
South Carolina 19.31% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(32.6 million fewer people live in South Carolina).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
South Carolina
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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