State size comparison

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Alaska is about 59 times bigger than Maryland.

Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 5,752% larger than Maryland. Meanwhile, the population of Maryland is ~5.8 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Maryland vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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