State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.6 times smaller than Kentucky.
Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 60.61% the size of Kentucky. Meanwhile, the population of Kentucky is ~4.3 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Kentucky
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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