Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 75 times smaller than Australia.

Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 1.32% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~27.6 million people (18.7 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Australia vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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