State size comparison

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North Dakota is about 1.2 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while North Dakota is approximately 178,647 sq km, making North Dakota 23% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.4 million fewer people live in North Dakota).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. North Dakota uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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