Country size comparison

compared to

Mississippi is about 2.5 times smaller than Italy.

Italy is approximately 301,340 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 40.32% the size of Italy. Meanwhile, the population of Italy is ~58.9 million people (56.0 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Italy vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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