State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 1.9 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 51.33% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (1.1 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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