State size comparison

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Rhode Island is about 23 times smaller than West Virginia.

West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, making Rhode Island 4.34% the size of West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (800,427 fewer people live in Rhode Island).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of West Virginia vs. Rhode Island uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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