State size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
New Mexico
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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