State size comparison

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Virginia is around the same size as Tennessee.

Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 96.06% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~6.3 million people (1.7 million more people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Tennessee vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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