State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 1.2 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 83.96% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (79,058 fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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