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 ~4.6 million people (3.9 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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