Country size comparison

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Turkey is about 5 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Turkey is approximately 783,562 sq km, making Turkey 442% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (80.0 million more people live in Turkey).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Turkey uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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