State size comparison

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Kentucky is about 1.7 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 57.67% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (1.6 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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