State size comparison

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Maine is about 1.8 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Maine is approximately 79,931 sq km, making Maine 55.24% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.7 million fewer people live in Maine).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Maine uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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