State size comparison

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Alaska is about 7 times bigger than Kansas.

Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 599% larger than Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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