Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 4.7 times bigger than Belgium.
Belgium is approximately 30,528 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 374% larger than Belgium. Meanwhile, the population of Belgium is ~11.8 million people (8.8 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Belgium
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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