State size comparison
compared to
District of Columbia is about 818 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, making District of Columbia 0.12% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in District of Columbia).
Tip:
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
District of Columbia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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