State size comparison

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Virginia is about 2.9 times smaller than Arizona.

Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 34.84% the size of Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (1.6 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arizona vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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