State size comparison

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New Jersey is about 77 times smaller than Alaska.

Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 1.3% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (8.1 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of Alaska vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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