State size comparison

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West Virginia is about 2.9 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 34.95% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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