Mississippi is 1.01× the size of North Korea

What fits

• North Korea is 99% of the size of Mississippi.
• Mississippi is larger by 1,430 km² (551 mi²), which is 1.2% of the area of North Korea.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, North Korea about 3.99.

How they differ

• Mississippi is larger, but North Korea has the larger population: 26.4 million against 3.0 million, 8.92× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 216 in North Korea against 24 in Mississippi: North Korea is 9.03× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 11,100 km apart.
• On a standard web map North Korea looks larger than Mississippi: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and North Korea at 40°N about 1.7×, so the map shows North Korea as 1.20× the size of Mississippi, when Mississippi is 1.01× the size of North Korea.
• Together Mississippi and North Korea cover 246,000 km², close to the size of Guinea (244,000 km², 0.8% smaller).
• The gap between them, 1,430 km², is about the size of Comoros (1,670 km²).
• At North Korea's density, Mississippi would have 26.7 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, North Korea would have 2.9 million (it has 26.4 million).
• North Korea's centre is 7.4° of latitude, about 820 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.
• North Korea ranks 101st of 246 countries and territories by area.
• North Korea lies about 7° of latitude (roughly 822 km) north of Mississippi.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in North Korea about 4,630 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and North Korea would cover 246,000 km², about the same size as Guinea.
• Together they have 29.4 million people, about as many people as Nepal.
• Counted as a country, Mississippi would rank 99th by area and 137th by population.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2023. 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 121,000 km² agrees with our measured area of 122,000 km², to within 2%.

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