Country size comparison

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West Virginia is about 9 times smaller than France.

France is approximately 551,500 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 11.31% the size of France. Meanwhile, the population of France is ~68.3 million people (66.5 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of France vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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