State size comparison

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Hawaii is about 9 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Hawaii is approximately 16,635 sq km, making Hawaii 11.5% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Hawaii).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Hawaii uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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