Country size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.6 times smaller than Iceland.
Iceland is approximately 103,000 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 60.54% the size of Iceland. Meanwhile, the population of Iceland is ~357,603 people (1.5 million more people live in West Virginia).
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