State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is around the same size as New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 99.35% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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