Country size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is around the same size as Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 88.74% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (3.4 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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