Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 79 times smaller than China.
China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 1.27% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Mississippi).
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