State size comparison

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Kentucky is about 2.4 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 41.08% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (5.5 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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