Country size comparison

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West Virginia is about 38 times smaller than Algeria.

Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 2.62% the size of Algeria. Meanwhile, the population of Algeria is ~44.2 million people (42.3 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Algeria vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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