State size comparison

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Iowa is about 53 times bigger than Rhode Island.

Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 5,247% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (2.0 million more people live in Iowa).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Rhode Island vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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