State size comparison
compared to
Mississippi is about 1.6 times smaller than South Dakota.
South Dakota is approximately 196,540 sq km, while Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, making Mississippi 61.81% the size of South Dakota. Meanwhile, the population of South Dakota is ~814,180 people (2.2 million more people live in Mississippi).
This to-scale comparison of
South Dakota
vs.
Mississippi
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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