State size comparison

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New York is about 1.7 times smaller than Kansas.

Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 57.71% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (16.5 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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