State size comparison
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New Jersey is about 35 times smaller than Texas.
Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 2.83% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~31.7 million people (22.2 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
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