State size comparison
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Kentucky is about 1.7 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 59.7% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in Kentucky).
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