State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 6 times smaller than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 16.55% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~13.1 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
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