State size comparison

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Pennsylvania is around the same size as Virginia.

Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 13% larger than Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (4.7 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
This to-scale comparison of Virginia vs. Pennsylvania uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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