State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 7 times smaller than Arkansas.
Arkansas is approximately 134,856 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 15.06% the size of Arkansas. Meanwhile, the population of Arkansas is ~2.9 million people (3.6 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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