Amapá is 1.12× the size of Mississippi

What fits

• Mississippi is 89% of the size of Amapá.
• Amapá is larger by 15,400 km² (5,940 mi²), which is 12% of the area of Mississippi.
• Measured in Belgiums: Amapá is about 4.54, Mississippi about 4.04.

How they differ

• Amapá is larger, but Mississippi has the larger population: 3.0 million against 734,000, 4.04× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 24 in Mississippi against 5.3 in Amapá: Mississippi is 4.54× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 5,250 km apart.
• On a standard web map Mississippi looks larger than Amapá: Amapá at 1°N is drawn about 1.0× too large and Mississippi at 33°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Mississippi as 1.26× the size of Amapá, when Amapá is 1.12× the size of Mississippi.
• Together Amapá and Mississippi cover 263,000 km², close to the size of Gabon (260,000 km², 1.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 15,400 km², is about the size of East Timor (15,100 km²).
• At Mississippi's density, Amapá would have 3.3 million people (it has 734,000). At Amapá's density, Mississippi would have 653,000 (it has 3.0 million).
• Mississippi's centre is 31.3° of latitude, about 3,480 km, farther north than Amapá's.
• Amapá is the 18th largest of the 27 states and districts of Brazil and covers 1.6% of its area; it is the 24th most densely populated of them.
• Mississippi is the 31st largest of the 51 states and districts of the United States and covers 1.3% of its area; it is the 34th most densely populated of them.
• Mississippi lies about 31° of latitude (roughly 3,480 km) north of Amapá.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Amapá would have about 189,680 m² and each person in Mississippi about 41,810 m².
• Laid side by side, Amapá and Mississippi would cover 263,000 km², about the same size as Gabon.
• Together they have 3.7 million people, 97% as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2022 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Our measured 139,000 km² is 2.5% below Wikidata's official figure of 143,000 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.
• Wikidata's official figure of 125,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 124,000 km², to within 2%.

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