State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 818 times bigger than District of Columbia.
District of Columbia is approximately 177 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 81,652% larger than District of Columbia. Meanwhile, the population of District of Columbia is ~601,723 people (2.4 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
District of Columbia
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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