West Virginia is about 1.6 times smaller than Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 60.81% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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