West Virginia is about 274 times smaller than Russia.

Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 0.36% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (140.2 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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