State size comparison
compared to
Maryland is about 4.5 times smaller than Louisiana.
Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 22.44% the size of Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (1.2 million more people live in Maryland).
This to-scale comparison of
Louisiana
vs.
Maryland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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