Country size comparison

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Bhutan is about 3.8 times smaller than Iowa.

Iowa is approximately 144,701 sq km, while Bhutan is approximately 38,394 sq km, making Bhutan 26.53% the size of Iowa. Meanwhile, the population of Iowa is ~3.0 million people (2.2 million fewer people live in Bhutan).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Iowa vs. Bhutan uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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