State size comparison

compared to

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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