State size comparison

compared to

Kentucky is about 1.2 times smaller than Mississippi.

Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 84.7% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.4 million more people live in Kentucky).

Tip: This to-scale comparison of Mississippi vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.