Greece is 1.06× the size of Mississippi

What fits

• Mississippi is 94% of the size of Greece.
• Greece is larger by 7,550 km² (2,910 mi²), which is 6.1% of the area of Mississippi.
• Measured in Belgiums: Greece is about 4.28, Mississippi about 4.04.

How they differ

• Greece also has the larger population: 10.5 million against 3.0 million, 3.54× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 80 in Greece against 24 in Mississippi: Greece is 3.34× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 9,440 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Greece at 39°N is drawn about 1.7× too large and Mississippi at 33°N about 1.4×, so the map shows Greece as 1.24× the size of Mississippi instead of 1.06×.
• Together Greece and Mississippi cover 255,000 km², close to the size of Ecuador (255,000 km², 0.1% smaller).
• The gap between them, 7,550 km², is about the size of Palestine (6,070 km²).
• At Mississippi's density, Greece would have 3.1 million people (it has 10.5 million). At Greece's density, Mississippi would have 9.9 million (it has 3.0 million).
• Greece's centre is 6.3° of latitude, about 700 km, farther north than Mississippi's.
• Greece ranks 98th of 246 countries and territories by area.
• 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.
• Greece lies about 6° of latitude (roughly 698 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Greece would have about 12,530 m² and each person in Mississippi about 41,810 m².
• Laid side by side, Greece and Mississippi would cover 255,000 km², about the same size as Ecuador.
• Together they have 13.4 million people, about as many people as Burundi.
• Counted as a country, Mississippi would rank 99th by area and 137th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2021 and Wikidata 2020. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 132,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 131,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 125,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 124,000 km², to within 2%.

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