Country size comparison
compared to
Germany is about 2.5 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Germany is approximately 357,022 sq km, making Germany 147% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (81.3 million more people live in Germany).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Germany
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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