State size comparison

compared to

Delaware is about 20 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 4.93% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (7.1 million fewer people live in Delaware).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Delaware uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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