State size comparison

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Maryland is about 4 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 24.69% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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