Country size comparison
compared to
Algeria is about 16 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Algeria is approximately 2,381,740 sq km, making Algeria 1,546% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (41.1 million more people live in Algeria).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Algeria
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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