Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 1.6 times bigger than Portugal.
Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 57% larger than Portugal. Meanwhile, the population of Portugal is ~10.2 million people (7.2 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Portugal
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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