State size comparison

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Iowa is about 1.4 times bigger than Ohio.

Ohio is approximately 106,056 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 36% larger than Ohio. Meanwhile, the population of Ohio is ~11.9 million people (8.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Ohio vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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