State size comparison

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New Jersey is about 3.2 times smaller than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 30.81% the size of West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (6.9 million more people live in New Jersey).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of West Virginia vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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