State size comparison
compared to
South Carolina is about 1.6 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while South Carolina is approximately 77,983 sq km, making South Carolina 64.19% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.7 million more people live in South Carolina).
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