State size comparison

compared to

Virginia is about 1.7 times smaller than Washington.

Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 59.5% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (1.3 million more people live in Virginia).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Washington vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.