Country size comparison

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Virginia is about 13 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 7.98% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (24.3 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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