State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is around the same size as Alabama.
Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 92.44% the size of Alabama. Meanwhile, the population of Alabama is ~4.8 million people (1.8 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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