State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 3.4 times smaller than Kansas.
Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 29.43% the size of Kansas. Meanwhile, the population of Kansas is ~2.9 million people (1.0 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Kansas
vs.
West Virginia
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