Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 14 times smaller than Iran.
Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 7.37% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (83.8 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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