State size comparison

 West Virginia, USA
compared to
 Iowa, USA

West Virginia is about 2.3 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while West Virginia is approximately 62,361 sq km, making West Virginia 43.1% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.2 million fewer people live in West Virginia). We have positioned the outline of Iowa near the middle of West Virginia.
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Flip comparison: see West Virginia on top of Iowa
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. West Virginia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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