Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 11 times smaller than Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is approximately 1,104,300 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 9.29% the size of Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the population of Ethiopia is ~113.7 million people (105.7 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ethiopia vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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