Country size comparison

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Maldives is about 408 times smaller than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Maldives is approximately 298 sq km, making Maldives 0.25% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.6 million fewer people live in Maldives).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. Maldives uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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