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