City size comparison

compared to

Houston is about 87 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 1.15% the size of Iowa.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Houston uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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