Country size comparison

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West Virginia is around the same size as Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is approximately 65,610 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 95.05% the size of Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the population of Sri Lanka is ~23.2 million people (21.3 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sri Lanka vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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