State size comparison
compared to
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).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
North Dakota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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