Country size comparison
compared to
Switzerland is about 3.5 times smaller than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Switzerland is approximately 41,277 sq km, making Switzerland 28.53% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (5.5 million more people live in Switzerland).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Switzerland
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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