State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 6 times smaller than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 18.0% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (2.0 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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