State size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.6 times smaller than Montana.

Montana is approximately 376,979 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 38.38% the size of Montana. Meanwhile, the population of Montana is ~1.1 million people (2.1 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Montana vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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