Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 16 times bigger than Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico is approximately 9,104 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 1,489% larger than Puerto Rico. Meanwhile, the population of Puerto Rico is ~3.1 million people (52,068 fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Puerto Rico
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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