Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is around the same size as Nepal.
Nepal is approximately 147,181 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 98.31% the size of Nepal. Meanwhile, the population of Nepal is ~30.7 million people (27.6 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Nepal
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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