Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 3.2 times smaller than Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea is approximately 462,840 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 31.26% the size of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, the population of Papua New Guinea is ~9.6 million people (6.5 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Papua New Guinea
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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