State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 6 times smaller than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 17.49% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (6.2 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
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