State size comparison

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Wisconsin is around the same size as Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Wisconsin is approximately 140,663 sq km, making Wisconsin 97.21% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (2.7 million more people live in Wisconsin).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Wisconsin uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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