Country size comparison

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Argentina is about 19 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Argentina is approximately 2,780,400 sq km, making Argentina 1,821% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (43.2 million more people live in Argentina).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Argentina uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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