Mississippi is around the same size as Nicaragua.

Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 93.19% the size of Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the population of Nicaragua is ~7.0 million people (4.1 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Nicaragua vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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