State size comparison

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Delaware is about 24 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 4.14% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.5 million fewer people live in Delaware).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Delaware uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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