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===Iowa=== {{main|Interstate 80 in Iowa}} I-80 is the longest Interstate Highway in [[Iowa]]. It extends from west to east across the central portion of the state through the population centers of [[Council Bluffs, Iowa|Council Bluffs]], Des Moines, and the [[Quad Cities]].<ref name=GoogleIA>{{Google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=I-80+E&daddr=I-80+E&hl=en&ll=41.722131,-93.284912&spn=5.091524,7.459717&sll=41.577572,-90.369587&sspn=0.083853,0.136471&geocode=Fd4kdQId4IRI-g%3BFfxzegIdyCSd-g&t=h&gl=us&mra=mift&mrsp=1&sz=13&z=7 |title= Interstate 80 in Iowa |access-date=August 9, 2012}}</ref> It enters the state at the Missouri River in Council Bluffs and heads east through the [[southern Iowa drift plain]]. In the [[Des Moines metropolitan area]], I-80 meets up with [[Interstate 35|I-35]] and the two routes bypass [[Downtown Des Moines]] together while [[Interstate 235 (Iowa)|I-235]] proceeds straight through the metro and rejoins both on the far side. In [[Ankeny, Iowa|Ankeny]], the Interstates split and I-80 continues east. On the west edge of the [[Iowa City metropolitan area]], it intersects [[Interstate 380 (Iowa)|I-380]], a segment of the [[Avenue of the Saints]]. Northwest of the Quad Cities in Walcott is [[Iowa 80]], the world's largest truckstop. I-80 passes along the northern edge of [[Davenport, Iowa|Davenport]] and [[Bettendorf, Iowa|Bettendorf]] and leaves Iowa via the [[Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge]] over the [[Mississippi River]] into Illinois. The majority of the highway runs through farmland,<ref name="GoogleIA" /> yet roughly a third of Iowa's population live along the I-80 corridor.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.carrollspaper.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&ArticleID=9965 |title = Population grows in I-80, U.S. 30 corridors |last = Staff |date = March 29, 2010 |work = Daily Times Herald |access-date = August 12, 2012 |location = Carroll, IA |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120915164308/http://carrollspaper.com/main.asp?SectionID=1 |archive-date = September 15, 2012 |url-status = dead }}</ref>
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