Mississippi is 1.70× the size of New Brunswick

What fits

• New Brunswick is 59% of the size of Mississippi.
• Mississippi is larger by 51,000 km² (19,700 mi²), which is 70% of the area of New Brunswick.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, New Brunswick about 2.37.

How they differ

• Mississippi also has the larger population: 3.0 million against 776,000, 3.82× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 24 in Mississippi against 11 in New Brunswick: Mississippi is 2.24× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 2,500 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and New Brunswick at 47°N about 2.1×, so the map shows Mississippi as 1.13× the size of New Brunswick instead of 1.70×.
• Together Mississippi and New Brunswick cover 197,000 km², close to the size of Senegal (196,000 km², 0.2% smaller).
• The gap between them, 51,000 km², is about the size of Costa Rica (51,200 km²).
• At New Brunswick's density, Mississippi would have 1.3 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, New Brunswick would have 1.7 million (it has 776,000).
• New Brunswick's centre is 13.9° of latitude, about 1,540 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.
• New Brunswick is the 11th largest of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and covers 0.7% of its area; it is the 4th most densely populated of them.
• New Brunswick lies about 14° of latitude (roughly 1,540 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in New Brunswick about 93,840 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and New Brunswick would cover 197,000 km², about the same size as Senegal.
• Together they have 3.7 million people, about as many people as Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2021. 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 72,900 km² agrees with our measured area of 72,800 km², to within 2%.

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