State size comparison
compared to
Louisiana is about 1.6 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km,
while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making
Louisiana 63.24% the size of Missouri.
Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people
(1.5 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
This to-scale comparison of
Missouri
vs.
Louisiana
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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