State size comparison

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Maryland is about 59 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 1.71% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (5.1 million more people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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