State size comparison

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New York is about 2 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 48.82% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (9.5 million more people live in New York).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. New York uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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