State size comparison

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Iowa is about 1.3 times bigger than Louisiana.

Louisiana is approximately 112,825 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 28% larger than Louisiana. Meanwhile, the population of Louisiana is ~4.5 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Louisiana vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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