State size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 762 times smaller than Arkansas.
Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.13% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~3.1 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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