State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 5 times smaller than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 18.67% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (4.5 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
New Jersey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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