State size comparison

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New York is about 2.2 times smaller than Colorado.

Colorado is approximately 268,627 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 45.52% the size of Colorado. Meanwhile, the population of Colorado is ~5.0 million people (14.3 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Colorado vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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