State size comparison

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Delaware is about 29 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 3.5% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Delaware).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Delaware uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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