Country size comparison

compared to

West Virginia is about 8 times smaller than Spain.

Spain is approximately 505,370 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 12.34% the size of Spain. Meanwhile, the population of Spain is ~47.2 million people (45.3 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Spain vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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