State size comparison
compared to
Alaska is about 12 times bigger than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, making Alaska 1,119% larger than Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (2.3 million fewer people live in Alaska).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Alaska
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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