Country size comparison

compared to

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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Russia vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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