Mississippi is 2.15× the size of Sinaloa

What fits

• Sinaloa fits inside Mississippi about 2.15 times by area.
• Mississippi is larger by 66,100 km² (25,500 mi²), which is 115% of the area of Sinaloa.
• Measured in Belgiums: Mississippi is about 4.04, Sinaloa about 1.88.

How they differ

• Mississippi is larger, but Sinaloa has the larger population: 3.0 million against 3.0 million, 1.00× as many people.
• Per square kilometre that is 51 in Sinaloa against 24 in Mississippi: Sinaloa is 2.15× as densely populated.
• Their centres are about 1,930 km apart.
• A standard web map misstates the comparison: Mississippi at 33°N is drawn about 1.4× too large and Sinaloa at 25°N about 1.2×, so the map shows Mississippi as 2.49× the size of Sinaloa instead of 2.15×.
• Together Mississippi and Sinaloa cover 182,000 km², close to the size of Cambodia (181,000 km², 0.3% smaller).
• The gap between them, 66,100 km², is about the size of Sri Lanka (66,300 km²).
• At Sinaloa's density, Mississippi would have 6.4 million people (it has 3.0 million). At Mississippi's density, Sinaloa would have 1.4 million (it has 3.0 million).
• Mississippi's centre is 7.7° of latitude, about 860 km, farther north than Sinaloa'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.
• Sinaloa is the 17th largest of the 32 states of Mexico and covers 2.9% of its area; it is the 19th most densely populated of them.
• Mississippi lies about 8° of latitude (roughly 859 km) north of Sinaloa.
• Shared out evenly, each person in Mississippi would have about 41,810 m² and each person in Sinaloa about 19,450 m².
• Laid side by side, Mississippi and Sinaloa would cover 182,000 km², about the same size as Cambodia.
• Together they have 5.9 million people, about as many people as El Salvador.

Side by side

Population: Wikidata 2020 and Wikidata 2015. 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 57,400 km² agrees with our measured area of 57,700 km², to within 2%.

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