Country size comparison

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Austria is about 1.7 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Austria is approximately 83,871 sq km, making Austria 57.96% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (5.9 million more people live in Austria).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Austria uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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