State size comparison

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Missouri is about 1.7 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 73% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (1.6 million more people live in Missouri).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Missouri uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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