Mississippi is 4.18× the size of Armenia

What fits

• Armenia fits inside Mississippi about 4.18 times by area.
• Mississippi is larger by 94,200 km² (36,400 mi²), which is 318% of the area of Armenia.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Armenia about 0.96.

How they differ

• Mississippi also has the larger population: 3.0 million against 2.9 million, 1.01× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 99 in Armenia against 24 in Mississippi: Armenia is 4.14× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,700 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Armenia at 40°N about 1.7×, so the map shows Mississippi as 3.44× the size of Armenia instead of 4.18×.
• Together Mississippi and Armenia cover 153,000 km², close to the size of Tunisia (157,000 km², 2.1% bigger).
• The gap between them, 94,200 km², is about the size of Hungary (93,200 km²).
• At Armenia's density, Mississippi would have 12.3 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Armenia would have 708,000 (it has 2.9 million).
• Armenia's centre is 7.5° of latitude, about 840 km, farther north than Mississippi's.
• 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.
• Armenia ranks 143rd of 246 countries and territories by area.
• Armenia lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 838 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Armenia about 10,100 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Armenia would cover 153,000 km², about the same size as Tunisia.
• Together they have 5.9 million people, about as many people as Denmark.
• Counted as a country, Mississippi would rank 99th by area and 137th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2017. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 125,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 124,000 km², to within 2%.
• Wikidata's official figure of 29,700 km² agrees with our measured area of 29,600 km², to within 2%.

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