State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 2.3 times bigger than West Virginia.
West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 132% larger than West Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of West Virginia is ~1.9 million people (1.2 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
West Virginia
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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