State size comparison
compared to
New York is about 1.2 times bigger than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, making New York 19% larger than Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (15.0 million more people live in New York).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
New York
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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