State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 2.8 times smaller than California.
California is approximately 403,882 sq km,
while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making
Iowa 35.83% the size of California.
Meanwhile, the population of California is ~37.3 million people
(34.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
California
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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