State size comparison

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Kentucky is around the same size as Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 91.2% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (194,005 fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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