State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 6 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 16.71% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (3.6 million more people live in Massachusetts).
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