State size comparison

compared to

District of Columbia is about 581 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.17% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.7 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.