Country size comparison
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West Virginia is about 21 times smaller than Peru.
Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 4.85% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (30.4 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
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