State size comparison

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Arizona is around the same size as Colorado.

Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, making Arizona 10% larger than Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (1.4 million more people live in Arizona).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colorado vs. Arizona uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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