Country size comparison

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Belarus is about 1.4 times bigger than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Belarus is approximately 207,600 sq km, making Belarus 43% larger than Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (6.4 million more people live in Belarus).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Belarus uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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