Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 11 times smaller than Peru.
Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 9.45% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (29.3 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Peru
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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