State size comparison
compared to
Delaware is about 29 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Delaware is approximately 5,060 sq km, making Delaware 3.5% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.1 million fewer people live in Delaware).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Delaware
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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