State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.3 times smaller than Maine.
Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 78.02% the size of Maine. Meanwhile, the population of Maine is ~1.3 million people (524,633 more people live in West Virginia).
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