State size comparison

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Iowa is about 2.2 times smaller than New Mexico.

New Mexico is approximately 314,310 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 46.04% the size of New Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of New Mexico is ~2.1 million people (987,176 more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of New Mexico vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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