State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 1.2 times smaller than Mississippi.
Mississippi is approximately 121,489 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 84.41% the size of Mississippi. Meanwhile, the population of Mississippi is ~3.0 million people (5.0 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Mississippi
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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