State size comparison

compared to

District of Columbia is about 352 times smaller than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.28% the size of West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (1.3 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).

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