Country size comparison

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Portugal is about 1.6 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Portugal is approximately 92,090 sq km, making Portugal 63.64% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (7.2 million more people live in Portugal).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Portugal uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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