State size comparison
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Maryland is about 7 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 14.69% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~8.0 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Maryland).
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