State size comparison

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Missouri is about 2.9 times bigger than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 186% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (4.1 million more people live in Missouri).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of West Virginia vs. Missouri uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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