Country size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 154 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 0.65% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in West Virginia).
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