IAIowa
Nobody has planted a flag here. It has been available since the map opened.
Claim it for
$5
The place
Joined 1846 · 29th state · Central time
Iowa is black soil, some of the most productive farmland on the planet, and a political culture shaped by going first. Candidates spend years in its diners, which makes its voters unusually practised at being asked. Behind the corn is a quieter state of Czech and Dutch settlements, river bluffs along the Mississippi, and a heavy metal scene that produced Slipknot. Go in autumn for the Loess Hills in the west, a landform this good found in only one other place on earth.
Votes first, and has done since 1972, which is why candidates know its diners by name.
Eat
Loose meat sandwich
Drink
Toppling Goliath
Listen
Slipknot
Bird
Eastern goldfinch
Flower
Wild prairie rose
Tree
Bur oak
Grows
Corn, Soybeans, Oats
The actual state · 2025
- Population
- 3,238,387
- Land area
- 55,854 mi²
- GDP per head
- $85,570
- Median household
- $75,623
- Joined
- Joined 1846
- Civil War
- Union
Largest cities
- 1Des Moines213K
- 2Cedar Rapids138K
- 3Davenport101K
- 4Sioux City87K
- 5Ankeny77K
Race
- White87.7%
- Black4.9%
- Two or more3.5%
Hispanic or Latino8.1%
Counted across all races, so it overlaps the figures above.
No history yet
This one is still on the board. $5 and it is yours, and then it is somebody else's problem to take it back.