Mississippi is about 5 times smaller than Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 18.63% the size of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people (35.4 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of Afghanistan vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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