State size comparison
compared to
California is about 2.8 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while California is approximately 403,882 sq km, making
California 179% larger than Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(34.2 million more people live in California).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
California
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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