Country size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 53 times smaller than India.
India is approximately 3,287,263 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 1.9% the size of India. Meanwhile, the population of India is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in West Virginia).
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