State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 6 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making New Jersey 15.81% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (5.8 million more people live in New Jersey).
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