State size comparison

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Kansas is about 1.5 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Kansas is approximately 211,900 sq km, making Kansas 46% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (193,237 fewer people live in Kansas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Kansas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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