State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 10 times smaller than Alaska.
Alaska is approximately 1,481,348 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 9.77% the size of Alaska. Meanwhile, the population of Alaska is ~710,231 people (2.3 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Alaska
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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