State size comparison

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Alaska is about 6 times bigger than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 491% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (9.2 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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