State size comparison
compared to
West Virginia is about 2.3 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 43.1% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in West Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
West Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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