State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 5 times bigger than Arizona.
Arizona is approximately 294,312 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 403% larger than Arizona. Meanwhile, the population of Arizona is ~6.4 million people (5.7 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
Arizona
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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