Country size comparison

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Portugal is around the same size as Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 89.8% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (2.2 million more people live in Portugal).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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