State size comparison

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Virginia is about 579 times bigger than District of Columbia.

District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 57,837% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (7.4 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of District of Columbia vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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