State size comparison

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Missouri is about 1.6 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 58% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.6 million people (1.7 million more people live in Missouri).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Missouri uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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