State size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 6 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 16.61% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (12.8 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
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