State size comparison
compared to
District of Columbia is about 686 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.15% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
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