State size comparison
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Pennsylvania is about 1.2 times smaller than Arkansas.
Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 86.07% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (9.8 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
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