State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.7 times smaller than Ohio.
Ohio is approximately 106,056 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 58.8% the size of Ohio. Meanwhile, the population of Ohio is ~11.5 million people (9.7 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
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