State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 1.4 times smaller than Washington.
Washington is approximately 172,348 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 70.49% the size of Washington. Meanwhile, the population of Washington is ~6.7 million people (3.8 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
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