Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 7 times bigger than El Salvador.
El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 588% larger than El Salvador. Meanwhile, the population of El Salvador is ~6.6 million people (3.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
El Salvador
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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