Country size comparison
compared to
Peru is about 21 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, making Peru 1,961% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (30.4 million more people live in Peru).
This to-scale comparison of
West Virginia
vs.
Peru
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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