The U.S. is the world’s fourth-largest country by total area, third by land area, and is home to around 340 million people.

But nearly one-third of those people live in just three states: California, Texas, and New York.

This graphic reimagines the usual U.S. map with the states resized based on their populations. Data is from the Census Bureau, as of 2024.

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