State size comparison

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Kentucky is about 1.4 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Kentucky is approximately 102,896 sq km, making Kentucky 71.11% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.3 million more people live in Kentucky).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Kentucky uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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