Country size comparison

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Saudi Arabia is about 15 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Saudi Arabia is approximately 2,149,690 sq km, making Saudi Arabia 1,386% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (32.3 million more people live in Saudi Arabia).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Saudi Arabia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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