Iowa
Iowa, a state with gently rolling green hills in the Midwest region of the United States, was admitted to the Union in 1846 as the 29th state. The people are very friendly, enjoy good food, and enjoy being in the political hotbed every four years when the Caucuses roll through the state.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
Des Moines
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Des Moines, capital of Iowa, is in the western region of the American Midwest. Des Moines is the largest city in Iowa and the annual site of the Iowa State Fair.
Cedar Rapids
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Cedar Rapids is a city in Eastern Iowa. In 2016, it was the second largest city in Iowa by population and is home to about 137,000 residents. Largely known as an industrial, working class city, Cedar Rapids has begun to grow and expand employment opportunities in the service sector, attracting new residents to the area.
Davenport
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Davenport is one of the Quad Cities, in Eastern Iowa. This Midwestern city on the bank of the Mississippi River has seen a great deal of action throughout history.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Eastern Iowa and Central Iowa.
Eastern Iowa
Eastern Iowa is the central region along the Mississippi River in Iowa, home to several of the state's main population centers. The region is both somewhat characteristic of the rest of the state in terms of demographics but also unique in both its geography and its denser population.
Central Iowa
Cradled between the Des Moines and Iowa Rivers, Central Iowa is a region with surprising variation, culture, and opportunity oft overlooked by the outside world.
Iowa
- Type: State with 3,110,000 residents
- Description: state of the United States of America
- Also known as: “Hawk-eye State”, “Hawkeye State”, “IA”, “Iowa, United States”, “State of Iowa”, “The Land Between Two Rivers”, and “US-IA”
- Neighbors: Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin
- Categories: U.S. state and locality
- Location: Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
41.9217° or 41° 55′ 18″ northLongitude of center
-93.3123° or 93° 18′ 44″ westPopulation
3,110,000Elevation
958 feet (292 metres)Abbreviation
“IA”OpenStreetMap ID
node 316955537OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
4862182Wikidata ID
Q1546
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Iowa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Iowa”
- Albanian: “Ajoua”
- Albanian: “Iowa”
- Amharic: “አዮዋ”
- Arabic: “آيوا”
- Aragonese: “Iowa”
- Armenian: “Այովա”
- Arpitan: “Iowa”
- Asturian: “Iowa”
- Aymara: “Iowa suyu”
- Azerbaijani: “Ayova”
- Balinese: “Iowa”
- Bashkir: “Айова”
- Basque: “Iowa”
- Bavarian: “Iowa”
- Belarusian: “Аёва”
- Belarusian: “Аява”
- Belarusian: “Штат Аёва”
- Bengali: “আইওয়া”
- Betawi: “Iowa”
- Bhojpuri: “आयोवा”
- Bishnupriya: “আইৱা”
- Bislama: “Iowa”
- Bosnian: “Iowa”
- Breton: “Iowa”
- Bulgarian: “Айова”
- Burmese: “အိုင်အိုဝါပြည်နယ်”
- Cajun French: “Iowa”
- Catalan: “Iowa”
- Cebuano: “Iowa”
- Central Bikol: “Iowa”
- Central Kurdish: “ئایۆوا”
- Chavacano: “Iowa”
- Chechen: “Айова”
- Cherokee: “ᎠᏯᏩ”
- Chinese: “Iowa”
- Chinese: “埃奧華州”
- Chinese: “愛荷華州”
- Chinese: “爱荷华州”
- Chinese: “艾奥瓦州 / 愛荷華州”
- Chinese: “艾奥瓦州”
- Chuvash: “Айова”
- Cornish: “Iowa”
- Corsican: “Iowa”
- Corsican: “Statu di l’Iowa”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ayova”
- Croatian: “Iowa”
- Czech: “Iowa”
- Czech: “State of Iowa”
- Dagbani: “Iowa”
- Danish: “Iowa”
- Dimli (individual language): “Iowa”
- Dimli (individual language): “İowa”
- Dutch: “IA”
- Dutch: “Iowa”
- Eastern Mari: “Айова”
- Eastern Mari: “Айово”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايوا”
- Esperanto: “Iovao”
- Estonian: “Iowa”
- Ewe: “Iowa”
- Faroese: “Iowa”
- Fiji Hindi: “Iowa”
- Finnish: “Iowa”
- French: “État de l’Iowa”
- French: “Iowa”
- French: “US-IA”
- Gagauz: “Iowa”
- Galician: “Estado de Iowa”
- Galician: “Iowa”
- Georgian: “აიოვა”
- German: “Iowa”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌾𐍉𐍅𐌰”
- Gothic: “𐌹𐌿𐍅𐌰”
- Greek: “Αϊόβα”
- Greek: “Άιοβα”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία της Αϊόβα”
- Greek: “Πολιτεία της Άιοβα”
- Guarani: “Iowa”
- Gujarati: “આયોવા”
- Haitian: “Ayowa”
- Hakka Chinese: “Iowa”
- Hausa: “Iowa”
- Hawaiian: “‘Iowa”
- Hawaiian: “ʻIowa”
- Hebrew: “איווה”
- Hindi: “आयोवा”
- Hungarian: “Iowa”
- Icelandic: “Iowa”
- Ido: “Iowa”
- Igbo: “Áyowạ”
- Iloko: “Iowa”
- Inari Sami: “Iowa”
- Indonesian: “Iowa”
- Interlingua: “Iowa”
- Interlingue: “Iowa”
- Inuktitut: “ᐃᐅᕙ”
- Inupiaq: “Aioua”
- Inupiaq: “Aiyua”
- Irish: “Iowa”
- Italian: “Iowa”
- Japanese: “アイオワ”
- Japanese: “アイオワ州”
- Javanese: “Iowa”
- Kabiyè: “Iyowa”
- Kalmyk: “Айов”
- Kannada: “ಅಯೋವಾ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Айова”
- Kazakh: “Айова”
- Kirghiz: “Айова”
- Komering: “Iowa”
- Korean: “아이오와”
- Korean: “아이오와주”
- Kurdish: “Iowa”
- Ladin: “Iowa”
- Ladino: “Iowa”
- Latin: “Iova”
- Latvian: “Aiova”
- Lezghian: “Айова”
- Ligurian: “Iowa”
- Limburgan: “Iowa”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Iowa”
- Literary Chinese: “愛荷華州”
- Lithuanian: “Ajova”
- Lombard: “Iowa”
- Low German: “Iowa”
- Lule Sami: “Iowa”
- Luxembourgish: “Iowa”
- Macedonian: “Ајова”
- Maithili: “आयोवा”
- Malagasy: “Iowa”
- Malay: “Iowa”
- Malayalam: “ഐയവ”
- Manipuri: “ꯑꯥꯏꯑꯣꯋꯥ”
- Manx: “Iowa”
- Maori: “Aiowa”
- Maori: “Iowa”
- Marathi: “आयोवा”
- Mazanderani: “آیوا”
- Mazanderani: “آیووا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Iowa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Iowa”
- Mingrelian: “აიოვა”
- Mongolian: “Айова”
- Moroccan Arabic: “آيووا”
- Moroccan Arabic: “أيووا”
- Nauru: “Iowa”
- Navajo: “Haltsotah Ałhidiilíinii Hahoodzo”
- Nepali: “आयोवा”
- Newari: “आयोवा”
- Northern Frisian: “Iowa”
- Northern Luri: “آیووا”
- Northern Sami: “Iowa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “IA”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Iowa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Iowa”
- Norwegian: “Iowa”
- Novial: “Iowa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Iowa”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܐܘܐ”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iowa”
- Ossetian: “Айовæ”
- Pali: “आयोवा”
- Pampanga: “Iowa”
- Panjabi: “ਆਇਓਵਾ”
- Papiamento: “Iowa”
- Persian: “آیووا”
- Picard: “Iowa”
- Piemontese: “Iowa”
- Pite Sami: “Iowa”
- Polish: “Iowa”
- Portuguese: “Iova”
- Portuguese: “Iowa”
- Pushto: “آیووا”
- Quechua: “Iowa suyu”
- Romanian: “Iowa”
- Romansh: “Iowa”
- Russia Buriat: “Айова”
- Russian: “Айова”
- Rusyn: “Айова”
- Samogitian: “Ajova”
- Sanskrit: “अयोवा”
- Sardinian: “Iowa”
- Sardinian: “Istadu de s’Iowa”
- Saterfriesisch: “Iowa”
- Scots: “Iowa”
- Scots: “State o Iowa”
- Scots: “US-IA”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Iowa”
- Serbian: “Ајова”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Iowa”
- Sicilian: “Iowa”
- Silesian: “Iowa”
- Sindhi: “آئيووا”
- Sinhala: “අයෝවා”
- Skolt Sami: “Iowa”
- Slovak: “Iowa”
- Slovenian: “Iowa”
- Somali: “Iowa”
- South Azerbaijani: “آیووا ایالتی”
- South Azerbaijani: “آیووا”
- Southern Sami: “Iowa”
- Spanish: “El estado de Hawkeye”
- Spanish: “Estado de Iowa”
- Spanish: “IA”
- Spanish: “Iowa (Estados Unidos)”
- Spanish: “Iowa”
- Spanish: “La tierra entre dos ríos”
- Swahili: “Iowa”
- Swedish: “Iowa”
- Tagalog: “Ayowa”
- Tagalog: “Iowa”
- Tajik: “Айова”
- Talysh: “Ajova”
- Talysh: “Ayova”
- Tamil: “அயோவா”
- Tatar: “Айова”
- Telugu: “అయోవా”
- Thai: “รัฐไอโอวา”
- Tibetan: “ཡོ་བ།”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Iowa”
- Tumbuka: “Iowa”
- Turkish: “IA”
- Turkish: “Ioa.”
- Turkish: “Iowa eyaleti”
- Turkish: “Iowa, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri”
- Turkish: “Iowa”
- Turkish: “State of Iowa”
- Turkish: “US-IA”
- Uighur: “Iowa Shitati”
- Uighur: “Lowa Shitati”
- Ukrainian: “Айова”
- Ume Sami: “Iowa”
- Upper Sorbian: “Iowa”
- Urdu: “آئیووا”
- Uzbek: “Ayova”
- Venetian: “Iowa”
- Vietnamese: “Ai-ô-òa”
- Vietnamese: “Iowa”
- Vlaams: “Iowa”
- Vlax Romani: “Iowa”
- Volapük: “Iowa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Iowa”
- Welsh: “Iowa”
- Western Frisian: “Iowa”
- Western Frisian: “Steat Iowa”
- Western Mari: “Айова”
- Western Panjabi: “آئیووا”
- Wu Chinese: “爱荷华州”
- Xhosa: “I-Ayowa”
- Yakut: “Айова”
- Yiddish: “אייאווע”
- Yoruba: “Iowa”
- Yue Chinese: “埃奧華州”
- Zeeuws: “Iowa”
- Zhuang: “Iowa”
- “Ajova”
- “Iowa”
- “ma Ajowa”
- “आयोवा”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Iowa”. Photo: Carl Wycoff, CC BY 2.0.