State size comparison
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Texas is about 6 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 458% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (22.2 million more people live in Texas).
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