State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.8 times bigger than Maine.
Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 81% larger than Maine. Meanwhile, the population of Maine is ~1.3 million people (1.7 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Maine
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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