State size comparison

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West Virginia is about 4 times smaller than Michigan.

Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 24.9% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (8.0 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Michigan vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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