State size comparison

compared to

Colorado is about 6 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making Colorado 18.13% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (4.3 million more people live in Colorado).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Colorado uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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