State size comparison
compared to
New York is about 1.4 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 70.95% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (12.7 million more people live in New York).
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