Country size comparison

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Virginia is around the same size as Iceland.

Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 99.56% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (7.6 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iceland vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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