Country size comparison
compared to
Iowa is about 118 times smaller than Russia.
Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 0.85% the size of Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Russia is ~142.0 million people (139.0 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of
Russia
vs.
Iowa
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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