Country size comparison

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Australia is about 54 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Australia is approximately 7,741,220 sq km, making Australia 5,250% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.2 million people (24.4 million more people live in Australia).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Australia uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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