Country size comparison

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Iowa is about 3.1 times smaller than Sweden.

Sweden is approximately 450,295 sq km, while Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, making Iowa 32.13% the size of Sweden. Meanwhile, the population of Sweden is ~10.5 million people (7.4 million fewer people live in Iowa).
This to-scale comparison of Sweden vs. Iowa uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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