State size comparison

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New Jersey is about 6 times smaller than New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 15.71% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (10.6 million fewer people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of New York vs. New Jersey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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