State size comparison
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Massachusetts is about 5 times smaller than Tennessee.
Tennessee is approximately 106,752 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 19.02% the size of Tennessee. Meanwhile, the population of Tennessee is ~7.3 million people (160,992 fewer people live in Massachusetts).
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