State size comparison
compared to
Kentucky is about 14 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 6.95% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (3.6 million more people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Kentucky
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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