State size comparison

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Alaska is about 6 times bigger than Colorado.

Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 451% larger than Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (4.3 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colorado vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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