State size comparison

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District of Columbia is about 691 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.14% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (18.8 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New York vs. District of Columbia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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