State size comparison

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Virginia is about 14 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 6.92% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (7.3 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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