State size comparison
compared to
Connecticut is about 8 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, making Connecticut 12.24% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (4.4 million fewer people live in Connecticut).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Connecticut
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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