Country size comparison

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France is about 5 times bigger than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 438% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (60.3 million more people live in France).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. France uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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