State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 5 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 19.8% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
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