State size comparison

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Virginia is about 1.3 times smaller than Arkansas.

Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 76.04% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (5.1 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arkansas vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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