State size comparison

compared to

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).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Massachusetts uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.