State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 2.1 times smaller than Michigan.
Michigan is approximately 250,493 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 48.5% the size of Michigan. Meanwhile, the population of Michigan is ~9.9 million people (6.9 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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