State size comparison

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Kentucky is around the same size as Tennessee.

Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 96.39% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (2.0 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tennessee vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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