State size comparison

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Alaska is about 8 times bigger than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 730% larger than Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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