State size comparison

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Alabama is about 5 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making Alabama 19.38% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~25.1 million people (20.4 million fewer people live in Alabama).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. Alabama uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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