What is the area of California in square miles ?

Answer 1

California, the third largest state in the Union, has a total area of 423,971 sq km (163,696 sq mi), including 6,926 sq km (2,674 sq mi) of inland water and 575 sq km (222 sq mi) of coastal waters over which it has jurisdiction. The state is roughly rectangular in shape, although the southern two-thirds bends in a dogleg toward the east. It has a maximum distance north to south of 1,052 km (654 mi) and an east-to-west extent of 945 km (587 mi), although even locations along the state’s eastern border are less than 350 km (220 mi) from the ocean. California’s mean elevation is about 880 m (2,900 ft).

Answer 2

More than 14 square miles have disappeared from the state over the past ten years. That's about two-thirds the size of Manhattan. Or the same size as Cayman Brac in the Cayman Islands. Or one millionth the size of Antarctica. Regardless, its not there anymore.

No one -- not geologists not geographers not the coastal commission not even the California Geological Survey -- knows where the land went. But the state's reported surface area in 1990 was 155,973 square miles. Ten years later, the number had dropped to 155,959. What happened to 14 miles of California?

Answer 3

OK..take this tape measure...I'll run this way, and you run that way.
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