State size comparison

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Virginia is around the same size as Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 99.66% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (3.7 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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