Country size comparison

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Bahrain is about 190 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Bahrain is approximately 760 sq km, making Bahrain 0.53% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (1.5 million fewer people live in Bahrain).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Bahrain uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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