State size comparison

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Virginia is around the same size as Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 90.89% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (3.5 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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