State size comparison
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Washington is about 9 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, making Washington 11.63% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (6.0 million more people live in Washington).
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