Country size comparison
compared to
France is about 3.8 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while France is approximately 551,500 sq km, making France 281% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (65.3 million more people live in France).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
France
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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