Country size comparison
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Sao Tome and Principe is about 106 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Sao Tome and Principe is approximately 964 sq km, making Sao Tome and Principe 0.94% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (7.8 million fewer people live in Sao Tome and Principe).
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