Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 11 times smaller than Iran.

Iran is approximately 1,648,195 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 8.78% the size of Iran. Meanwhile, the population of Iran is ~86.8 million people (83.7 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Iran vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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