Country size comparison
compared to
Russia is about 274 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 27,318% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (140.2 million more people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of
West Virginia
vs.
Russia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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