State size comparison

compared to

Maryland is about 6 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Maryland is approximately 25,314 sq km, making Maryland 17.49% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.7 million more people live in Maryland).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Maryland uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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