State size comparison
compared to
Minnesota is about 1.4 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Minnesota is approximately 206,189 sq km, making Minnesota 42% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.3 million more people live in Minnesota).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Minnesota
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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