State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.6 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 60.81% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (6.1 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Virginia
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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