State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 2.8 times smaller than Nevada.
Nevada is approximately 284,448 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 36.05% the size of Nevada. Meanwhile, the population of Nevada is ~2.7 million people (5.3 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Nevada
vs.
Virginia
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