Mississippi is 1.31× the size of Castile and León

What fits

• Castile and León is 77% of the size of Mississippi.
• Mississippi is larger by 29,000 km² (11,200 mi²), which is 31% of the area of Castile and León.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Castile and León about 3.09.

How they differ

• Mississippi also has the larger population: 3.0 million against 2.4 million, 1.24× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 25 in Castile and León against 24 in Mississippi: Castile and León is 1.05× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 7,270 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Castile and León at 42°N about 1.8×, so the map shows Mississippi as 1.03× the size of Castile and León instead of 1.31×.
• Together Mississippi and Castile and León cover 219,000 km², close to the size of Guyana (211,000 km², 3.4% smaller).
• The gap between them, 29,000 km², is about the size of Armenia (29,600 km²).
• At Castile and León's density, Mississippi would have 3.1 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Castile and León would have 2.3 million (it has 2.4 million).
• Castile and León's centre is 9.0° of latitude, about 1,000 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.
• Castile and León is the largest of the 19 autonomous communities and cities of Spain and covers 19% of its area; it is the 18th most densely populated of them.
• Castile and León lies about 9° of latitude (roughly 1,000 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Castile and León about 39,690 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Castile and León would cover 219,000 km², 1.03× the size of Guyana.
• Together they have 5.3 million people, about as many people as New Zealand.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2024. 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 94,200 km² agrees with our measured area of 94,800 km², to within 2%.

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