State size comparison

compared to

Mississippi is around the same size as New York.

New York is approximately 122,283 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 99.35% the size of New York. Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people (16.4 million fewer people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of New York vs. Mississippi uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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