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).
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