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).

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