State size comparison

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Colorado is around the same size as Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, making Colorado 7% larger than Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (4.9 million fewer people live in Colorado).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Colorado uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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