Country size comparison
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Virgin Islands is about 64 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Virgin Islands is approximately 1,910 sq km, making Virgin Islands 1.56% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (19.3 million fewer people live in Virgin Islands).
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