State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 12 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 8.2% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.3 million more people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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