State size comparison

compared to

District of Columbia is about 974 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.1% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).

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