State size comparison
compared to
Pennsylvania is around the same size as Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, making Pennsylvania 95.54% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (9.7 million more people live in Pennsylvania).
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