State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.2 times bigger than New York.
New York is approximately 122,283 sq km,
while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making
Iowa 18% larger than New York.
Meanwhile, the population of New York is ~19.4 million people
(16.3 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
New York
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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