State size comparison

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Virginia is around the same size as Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 88.35% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (4.7 million fewer people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of Pennsylvania vs. Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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