Country size comparison
compared to
Netherlands is about 3.5 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Netherlands is approximately 41,543 sq km, making Netherlands 28.71% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (14.4 million more people live in Netherlands).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Netherlands
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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