Mississippi is 5.35× the size of Meghalaya

What fits

• Meghalaya fits inside Mississippi about 5.35 times by area.
• Mississippi is larger by 101,000 km² (38,900 mi²), which is 435% of the area of Meghalaya.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Meghalaya about 0.75.

How they differ

• Mississippi is larger, but Meghalaya has the larger population: 3.0 million against 3.0 million, 1.00× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 128 in Meghalaya against 24 in Mississippi: Meghalaya is 5.36× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 13,500 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Meghalaya at 26°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Mississippi as 6.16× the size of Meghalaya instead of 5.35×.
• Together Mississippi and Meghalaya cover 147,000 km², close to the size of Nepal (147,000 km², 0.1% bigger).
• The gap between them, 101,000 km², is about the size of Iceland (102,000 km²).
• At Meghalaya's density, Mississippi would have 15.9 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Meghalaya would have 553,000 (it has 3.0 million).
• Mississippi's centre is 7.2° of latitude, about 800 km, farther north than Meghalaya'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.
• Meghalaya is the 24th largest of the 36 states and union territories of India and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 29th most densely populated of them.
• Mississippi lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 802 km) north of Meghalaya.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Meghalaya about 7,790 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Meghalaya would cover 147,000 km², about the same size as Nepal.
• Together they have 5.9 million people, about as many people as El Salvador.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2011. 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 23,100 km² is 3.1% above Wikidata's official figure of 22,400 km². Official figures can include inland water or count land that an outline draws differently.

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