State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.9 times smaller than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 53.72% the size of Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (10.8 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Pennsylvania
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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