State size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 53 times bigger than Rhode Island.
Rhode Island is approximately 2,706 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 5,247% larger than Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the population of Rhode Island is ~1.1 million people (2.0 million more people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Rhode Island
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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