City size comparison

compared to

New Orleans is about 330 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while New Orleans is approximately 439 sq km, making New Orleans 0.3% the size of Iowa.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. New Orleans uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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