State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 1.5 times smaller than Missouri.
Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 68.09% the size of Missouri. Meanwhile, the population of Missouri is ~6.0 million people (3.0 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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