State size comparison

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Kansas is about 7 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, making Kansas 14.3% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.1 million more people live in Kansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Kansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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