State size comparison
compared to
Texas is about 4.7 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Texas is approximately 678,052 sq km, making Texas 369% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (22.1 million more people live in Texas).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Texas
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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