State size comparison

 North Carolina, USA
compared to
 Iowa, USA

North Carolina is around the same size as Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while North Carolina is approximately 126,161 sq km, making North Carolina 87.19% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.5 million more people live in North Carolina). We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of North Carolina.
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Flip comparison: see North Carolina on top of Iowa
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. North Carolina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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