Mississippi is about 3.8 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.

Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 26.25% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.6 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of Papua New Guinea vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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