State size comparison

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Iowa is about 245 times bigger than Chicago.

Chicago is approximately 590 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 24,433% larger than Chicago.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Chicago vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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