State size comparison
Mississippi, USA
compared to
Illinois, USA
Mississippi is about 1.2 times smaller than Illinois.
Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 84.39% the size of Illinois. Meanwhile, the population of Illinois is ~12.8 million people (9.9 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
We have positioned the outline of Illinois near the middle of Mississippi.
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This to-scale comparison of
Illinois
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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