Country size comparison
compared to
New Zealand is about 1.9 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while New Zealand is approximately 268,838 sq km, making New Zealand 86% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.0 million more people live in New Zealand).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
New Zealand
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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