State size comparison

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Virginia is about 5 times bigger than Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 405% larger than Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the population of Massachusetts is ~6.5 million people (1.5 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of Massachusetts vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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