State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 2 times smaller than Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 49.73% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (2.7 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Minnesota
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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