State size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 5 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 19.8% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Massachusetts).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
Massachusetts
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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