State size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 4.8 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 20.84% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.8 million more people live in Maryland).
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