State size comparison

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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).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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