State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 8,369 times bigger than District of Columbia.
District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 836,820% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (108,508 more people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
District of Columbia
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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