State size comparison
compared to
Virginia is about 1.4 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, making Virginia 70.87% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (5.0 million more people live in Virginia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Virginia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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