State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 2 times smaller than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km,
while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making
West Virginia 51.0% the size of New York.
Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people
(17.5 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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