State size comparison

compared to

Iowa is about 5,420 times bigger than Sydney.

Sydney is approximately 27 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 541,851% larger than Sydney.
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Sydney vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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