State size comparison

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West Virginia is about 3.4 times smaller than Kansas.

Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 29.43% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kansas vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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