Country size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 10 times smaller than South Africa.
South Africa is approximately 1,219,090 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 9.97% the size of South Africa. Meanwhile, the population of South Africa is ~57.5 million people (54.5 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
South Africa
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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