State size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 1,518 times smaller than Colorado.
Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.07% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~6.0 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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