State size comparison

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West Virginia is about 2.2 times smaller than Arkansas.

Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 46.24% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Arkansas vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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