State size comparison
compared to
New Jersey is about 8 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while New Jersey is approximately 19,211 sq km, making
New Jersey 13.28% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(5.7 million more people live in New Jersey).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
New Jersey
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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