Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 6 times smaller than Botswana.

Botswana is approximately 581,730 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 17.63% the size of Botswana. Meanwhile, the population of Botswana is ~2.4 million people (5.6 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Botswana vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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