State size comparison

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Massachusetts is about 7 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Massachusetts is approximately 20,306 sq km, making Massachusetts 14.03% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (3.9 million more people live in Massachusetts).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Massachusetts uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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