State size comparison

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Alaska is about 12 times bigger than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 1,111% larger than New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.7 million fewer people live in Alaska).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Alaska uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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