State size comparison

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Texas is about 4.7 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 369% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (22.1 million more people live in Texas).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Texas uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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