State size comparison

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Wyoming is about 1.7 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Wyoming is approximately 251,489 sq km, making Wyoming 74% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.5 million fewer people live in Wyoming).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Wyoming uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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