Mississippi is 1.57× the size of Hokkaido (Japan)

What fits

• Hokkaido (Japan) is 64% of the size of Mississippi.
• Mississippi is larger by 45,000 km² (17,400 mi²), which is 57% of the area of Hokkaido (Japan).
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Hokkaido (Japan) about 2.57.

How they differ

• Mississippi is larger, but Hokkaido (Japan) has the larger population: 5.4 million against 3.0 million, 1.83× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 69 in Hokkaido (Japan) against 24 in Mississippi: Hokkaido (Japan) is 2.88× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 10,000 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Hokkaido (Japan) at 43°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Mississippi as 1.17× the size of Hokkaido (Japan) instead of 1.57×.
• Together Mississippi and Hokkaido (Japan) cover 203,000 km², close to the size of Kyrgyzstan (199,000 km², 1.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 45,000 km², is about the size of Estonia (45,800 km²).
• At Hokkaido (Japan)'s density, Mississippi would have 8.5 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Hokkaido (Japan) would have 1.9 million (it has 5.4 million).
• Hokkaido (Japan)'s centre is 10.6° of latitude, about 1,180 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.
• Hokkaido (Japan) is the largest of the 47 prefectures of Japan and covers 21% of its area; it is the 47th most densely populated of them.
• Hokkaido (Japan) lies about 11° of latitude (roughly 1,180 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Hokkaido (Japan) about 14,500 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Hokkaido (Japan) would cover 203,000 km², about the same size as Kyrgyzstan.
• Together they have 8.4 million people, about as many people as Honduras.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2014. Official figures: Wikidata (CC0).

• Wikidata's official figure of 125,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 124,000 km², to within 2%.
• Our measured 78,800 km² is 5.6% below Wikidata's official figure of 83,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently. This difference is flagged for review.

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