Country size comparison
compared to
Russia is about 118 times bigger than Iowa.
Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Russia is approximately 17,098,242 sq km, making Russia 11,716% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (139.0 million more people live in Russia).
This to-scale comparison of
Iowa
vs.
Russia
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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