Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 9 times smaller than Peru.

Peru is approximately 1,285,216 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 11.26% the size of Peru. Meanwhile, the population of Peru is ~32.3 million people (29.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Peru vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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