City size comparison
compared to
Houston is about 87 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Houston is approximately 1,659 sq km, making Houston 1.15% the size of Iowa.
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Houston
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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