State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 2.3 times smaller than Nevada.
Nevada is approximately 284,448 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 42.71% the size of Nevada. Meanwhile, the population of Nevada is ~2.7 million people (266,746 more people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
Nevada
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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