State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 8 times bigger than Connecticut.
Connecticut is approximately 12,548 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 717% larger than Connecticut. Meanwhile, the population of Connecticut is ~3.6 million people (4.4 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Connecticut
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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