State size comparison

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Michigan is around the same size as Colorado.

Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, making Michigan 93.25% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (4.9 million more people live in Michigan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colorado vs. Michigan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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