State size comparison
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Wisconsin is about 2.9 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km, while Wisconsin is approximately 140,663 sq km, making Wisconsin 34.83% the size of California. Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people (31.6 million fewer people live in Wisconsin).
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