Country size comparison
compared to
Washington is about 45 times smaller than Australia.
Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 2.23% the size of Australia. Meanwhile, the population of Australia is ~26.1 million people (19.4 million fewer people live in Washington).
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