State size comparison
compared to
Missouri is about 8 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Missouri is approximately 178,414 sq km, making Missouri 12.04% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (5.3 million more people live in Missouri).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Missouri
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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