State size comparison

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Louisiana is about 1.6 times smaller than Missouri.

Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, making Louisiana 63.24% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.3 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Louisiana).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Missouri vs. Louisiana uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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