State size comparison
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District of Columbia is about 603 times smaller than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.17% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~7.3 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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