Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 8 times smaller than Namibia.

Namibia is approximately 824,292 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 12.44% the size of Namibia. Meanwhile, the population of Namibia is ~2.7 million people (5.3 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Namibia vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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