State size comparison
compared to
Massachusetts is about 10 times smaller than Minnesota.
Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 9.85% the size of Minnesota. Meanwhile, the population of Minnesota is ~5.3 million people (1.2 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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