New Caledonia is about 7 times smaller than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while New Caledonia is approximately 18,575 sq km, making New Caledonia 15.29% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.7 million fewer people live in New Caledonia).
This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. New Caledonia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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