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US States & Territories Population Facts
Surprising comparisons from 56 items ranked by population.
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California (#1) has 825x the population of Northern Mariana Islands (#56).
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The average population is 6.0M, but the median is only 3.6M — showing how much the top entries skew things.
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Pennsylvania and Illinois are incredibly close — only 390.0K apart in population.
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The biggest drop-off is between #1 California and #2 Texas — a gap of 9.0M.
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#10 Michigan (10.0M) has only 26% of #1 California's population (39.0M).
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