State size comparison
compared to
Alabama is around the same size as Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km,
while Alabama is approximately 131,426 sq km, making
Alabama 90.83% the size of Iowa.
Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people
(1.7 million more people live in Alabama).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Alabama
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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