Mississippi is 1.77× the size of Bavaria

What fits

• Bavaria is 57% of the size of Mississippi.
• Mississippi is larger by 53,800 km² (20,800 mi²), which is 77% of the area of Bavaria.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Bavaria about 2.28.

How they differ

• Mississippi is larger, but Bavaria has the larger population: 13.0 million against 3.0 million, 4.40× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 186 in Bavaria against 24 in Mississippi: Bavaria is 7.78× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 8,060 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Bavaria at 49°N about 2.3×, so the map shows Mississippi as 1.08× the size of Bavaria instead of 1.77×.
• Together Mississippi and Bavaria cover 194,000 km², close to the size of Senegal (196,000 km², 1.2% bigger).
• The gap between them, 53,800 km², is about the size of Croatia (55,000 km²).
• At Bavaria's density, Mississippi would have 23.1 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Bavaria would have 1.7 million (it has 13.0 million).
• Bavaria's centre is 16.2° of latitude, about 1,800 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.
• Bavaria is the largest of the 16 states of Germany and covers 20% of its area; it is the 11th most densely populated of them.
• Bavaria lies about 16° of latitude (roughly 1,800 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Bavaria about 5,370 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Bavaria would cover 194,000 km², about the same size as Senegal.
• Together they have 16.0 million people, 1.05× as many people as Zimbabwe.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2022. 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 70,600 km² agrees with our measured area of 70,000 km², to within 2%.

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