Country size comparison

 Iowa, USA
compared to
 China

Iowa is about 66 times smaller than China.

China is approximately 9,596,960 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 1.51% the size of China. Meanwhile, the population of China is ~1.4 billion people (1.4 billion fewer people live in Iowa). We have positioned the outline of China near the middle of Iowa.
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This to-scale comparison of China vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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