State size comparison
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Tennessee is about 3.8 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, making Tennessee 26.43% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (30.9 million fewer people live in Tennessee).
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