State size comparison

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New York is around the same size as Arkansas.

Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 90.68% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (16.5 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arkansas vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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