State size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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