State size comparison

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New York is about 1.2 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 19% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (15.0 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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