State size comparison

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Virginia is about 7 times smaller than Texas.

Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 15.12% the size of Texas. Meanwhile, the population of Texas is ~31.7 million people (22.8 million fewer people live in Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Texas vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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