State size comparison

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Delaware is about 35 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 2.84% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (5.1 million fewer people live in Delaware).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Delaware uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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