State size comparison

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Hawaii is about 6 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Hawaii is approximately 16,635 sq km, making Hawaii 16.17% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Hawaii).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Hawaii uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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