Country size comparison
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Latvia is about 1.9 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Latvia is approximately 64,589 sq km, making Latvia 53.16% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in Latvia).
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