Country size comparison
compared to
Australia is about 124 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 12,314% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (24.3 million more people live in Australia).
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