State size comparison

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West Virginia is about 1.6 times smaller than Kentucky.

Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 60.61% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Kentucky vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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