State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 1.3 times smaller than Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 78.03% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (3.2 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Alabama
vs.
Virginia
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