State size comparison

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Massachusetts is about 3.1 times smaller than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 32.56% the size of West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (4.7 million more people live in Massachusetts).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of West Virginia vs. Massachusetts uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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