Country size comparison

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Kuwait is about 6 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Kuwait is approximately 17,818 sq km, making Kuwait 17.38% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Kuwait).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Kuwait uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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