State size comparison

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Arkansas is about 11 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, making Arkansas 9.1% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.2 million more people live in Arkansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Arkansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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