State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.2 times bigger than Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is approximately 116,075 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 25% larger than Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the population of Pennsylvania is ~12.7 million people (9.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Pennsylvania
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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