Country size comparison

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Yemen is about 3.6 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Yemen is approximately 527,968 sq km, making Yemen 265% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (27.9 million more people live in Yemen).
This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Yemen uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.

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