State size comparison

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Texas is about 7 times bigger than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 559% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (20.8 million more people live in Texas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Texas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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